MSNBC host Joy Reid has become the latest TV star to imply that Donald Trump is partly to blame for the assassination attempt against him.
Reid was on air with fellow MSNBC star Rachel Maddow covering the Republican National Convention when she suggested the former president was suffering the 'consequences' of 'promoting' violence.
'The idea of political violence that we've been nursing really... is so dangerous,' Reid said. 'It's so dangerous that you cannot avoid the consequences of it, even if you're one of the people promoting it.'
Reid stressed that she did not want to see Trump 'rewrite himself as a victim' - and used reports of voter intimidation in Arizona as an example of the political violence she says Republicans have been nurturing.
'I think about the people who tried to vote in Arizona when men with long guns were standing outside of the polling places to send them a message,' she explained.
MSNBC host Joy Reid has become the latest TV host to imply that Donald Trump is partly to blame for the assassination attempt against him
'"If you don't vote the right way, I'm here with this gun."'
Reid also claimed it was akin to when 'menacing' armed men at the 2016 RNC were 'pacing' near her booth to 'send a message.'
Many have taken issue with Reid's comment and expressed their outrage on social media, with one X user calling her 'the most vile woman in America.'
X user Brandon Tatum said: 'Gaslighting at its finest. This is how insane these people are.
'Joy Reid says Trump shouldn’t be allowed to play the victim after GETTING SHOT.'
MSNBC has made efforts to keep its liberal stars from making embarrassing comments following Saturday's shooting at the Trump rally.
The network did not air Morning Joe – its signature morning politics show – on Monday, instead airing breaking news coverage of the attempted assassination.
There were worries one of the guests on the program's roundtable might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to attack the network and the program, CNN reported.
A spokesman for MSNBC denied CNN's report.
MSNBC has made efforts to keep its liberal stars from making embarrassing comments following Saturday's shooting at the Trump rally
Scarborough and co-host and wife Mika Brzezinski returned to the air on Tuesday morning, and vented their frustration at the network executives they say blindsided them
The network is known for having guests that tilt toward progressive and Democratic politics. And executives were said to want avoid any guest appearing insensitive to the former president.
On Tuesday, Scarborough has said he was 'very disappointed' that his flagship morning show Morning Joe was pulled off air.
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Scarborough and co-host and wife Mika Brzezinski returned to the air on Tuesday morning, and vented their frustration at the network executives they say blindsided them.
He then said the next time it happens they will be in the chairs covering breaking news, or else the network can get 'somebody else'.
The Secret Service is investigating how the 20-year-old gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get on a nearby roof and shoot and injure the former president at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania.
The gunman, who officials said was killed by Secret Service personnel, fired multiple shots at the stage from an “elevated position outside of the rally venue,” the agency said. Trump was bloodied and says he was 'shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.'
A spectator was killed and two men were critically injured.
An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos taken at the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage where the former president was speaking.
The roof was fewer than 164 yards from where Trump was speaking. Biden has directed an independent review of the security at the rally.
