Political analyst Joy Reid was in tears when she lost her job as host of “The ReidOut” on MSNBC earlier this year. Reid’s anti-Trump commentary was part of the reason she was let go by the network.
Now Reid is back with a new podcast titled “The Joy Reid Show”, where she’s covering politics including President Trump’s recent pardons.
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The Joy Reid Show will air three times a week on YouTube and other major podcast platforms.
In a recent interview with theGRIO, Reid mentioned Trump pardoning black people, including commuting the federal life sentence of Chicago gangster Larry Hoover Sr. and pardoning rapper NBA YoungBoy last week.
Reid, 56, says don’t be fooled by Trump’s benevolence toward black criminals because Trump is a criminal himself.
“The Trump regime [or] current administration, whatever you want to call them, is trying to reset and reestablish what criminality means,” Reid told theGrio. “Recall that the current president of the United States was convicted and sentenced to no jail time, but he was adjudicated a felon, an 88-count felony, by a jury of his peers in the state of New York. He has a mug shot that he has turned into, for him, an iconic image of himself. At the same time, he has attempted to establish, through pardons, that the insurrection that he fomented to try to stay in power is not criminality, it’s patriotism. [So] all those people get pardons.”
Reid says Hoover’s commuted sentence was a perfect example of a “message pardon.”
“The Larry Hoover pardon to me – because Larry Hoover will not be leaving prison – was just a message pardon,” she explained. “[Trump] is going to try to send a message, I do believe, to our community, to say, ‘Look at this. I’m going to pardon someone who’s been referenced in hip hop. Now you need to love me.'”
“We shouldn’t be fooled by that,” Reid continued. She explained that Trump’s administration is indicting LaMonica McIver, a black member of Congress, who is charged with assaulting ICE agents in a melee outside an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey on May 9.
McIver attempted to prevent ICE agents from arresting Newark mayor Bonnie Watson Coleman, who is also a black member of Congress.
Reid explained that Watson Coleman, who is in her 70s… “was being pushed around by ICE agents that were there to arrest the African American mayor of Newark, New Jersey.”
Reid’s “The Joy Reid Show” podcast will launch on Monday, June 9.
