Last week, far-left MSNBC host Joy Reid made headlines after getting caught on a hot mic cursing out President Biden for promising to hit back at Iranian proxy forces after three U.S. soldiers were killed. But during an appearance on ABC’s The View on Monday, Reid claimed she didn’t curse him out and defended herself by suggesting “I’m a Christian.” She also engaged in revisionist history by lashing out at anyone who said they were better off financially during the Trump years.
Despite there being two so-called “conservatives” on the panel that day, it was left-of-center host Sara Haines who was the one to press Reid on her vulgar reaction (decrying Biden “starting another fucking war”). Of course, she approached it gently with some quips; to which Reid threw up her “Christian” defense:
HAINES: Now Joy, I want to ask you because as people that wear microphones every day, we can relate to this. But last week, you had a hot mic moment that got some attention. Let’s just say you used some colorful language. Who doesn't?
REID: Not me. I'm a Christian.
[Laughter]
HAINES: It seems like you are criticizing President Biden for starting another war. I don't think you're alone in concerns of that, but is that true? Like, what was behind this?
“Well, I'm going to hit that with a cute ‘no comment,’” she said.
Reid proceeded to try to deflect away from her comments by suggesting she was “a red-letter” and “study-war-no-more kind of Christian” who was against all wars, including the new “civil war” Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) was “literally trying to start.”
“I'm an anti-war person. And so, you know, I don't want to say that there's any side that is specifically to blame here,” she proclaimed, seemingly alluding to the attacks on U.S. bases and civilian shipping traffic in the Middle East.
And despite being a race-baiter herself, Reid bloviated about how we should “try to bring this country back from the brink of racial hatred. Let's not do war at all.”
Since it was Monday, the audience was deprived of a Joy Reid and Joy Behar mash-up. But that didn’t stop stupid statements from being made.
Earlier in the interview, Reid claimed: “On the facts, the economy is far better now than it was under Donald Trump.” She also lashed out at those who dared to say their financial situation was better under Tramp by suggesting what they were saying was simply “not true” and literally “not possible.”
Joy Reid claims "on the facts, the economy is far better now than it was under" Trump/"not possible" that people were better off.
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 5, 2024
She suggests the economy shut down during COVID because he "flubbed it so badly" early on. She also asserts "a million people died BECAUSE OF him." pic.twitter.com/MhRujr8mGS
Reid blamed Trump for the “14 percent unemployment” during the pandemic and insanely suggested that the only reason the economy shut down was because he “flubbed it so thoroughly” early on. “And a million people died. Not even some people. A million people died because of him,” she proclaimed, without evidence.
“[Americans] have this mismemory of the Trump era as this great era. It was the opposite,” she chided.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
February 5, 2024
11:38:11 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY REID: Anyone can win if people vote for them. So yes, he [President Joe Biden) has absolutely a chance to win, and as you said, every candidate starts out with a good 45 percent and it's a matter of the rest.
The challenge for President Biden is that, on the facts, the economy is far better now than it was under Donald Trump, who failed in his one job: react to a crisis. As president, you’re a crisis manager. He was hit with one bad crisis, the pandemic, and flubbed it so thoroughly we were at 14 percent unemployment. Yet people –
SUNNY HOSTIN: People died.
REID: And a million people died. Not even some people. A million people died because of him. And yet, you have people saying, “I had more money. I was rich under Trump.” Not true. Not possible. And the fact that he overcame his own objection to the stimmy, signed a bill Democrats passed to give you a stimmy, then took credit for the stimmy by put a letter in the thing when you got the stimmy that said, “You're welcome, Donald Trump,” even though he was against the stimmy, and now you got people in the street saying, “Well, Trump gave me a stimmy.” No he didn't! Nancy Pelosi gave you a stimmy! You need to thank her!
And he's taking credit for things he didn't even do. And “the best economy” – I hear him saying things like – People say things like, he did the most for HBCUs. Wrong, Obama. “He released the most people from prison.” Wrong, Obama. He released the fewest prisoners an any president since literally since Lyndon B. Johnson.
HOSTIN: Did he finish the wall?
REID: Did not build a wall, which is why there's barbed wire at the border because it’s water! You can’t build a wall over water! It's a whole Rio Grande. You can't build a wall over that. So, he can’t build a wall. None of it was true. Yet, people – they have this mismemory of the Trump era as this great era. It was the opposite.
SARA HAINES: Now Joy, I want to ask you because as people that wear microphones every day, we can relate to this. But last week, you had a hot mic moment that got some attention. Let’s just say you used some colorful language. Who doesn't.
REID: Not me. I'm a Christian.
[Laughter]
HAINES: It seems like you are criticizing President Biden for starting another war. I don't think you're alone in concerns of that, but is that true? Like, what was behind this?
REID: [Laughter] Well, I'm going to hit that with a cute “no comment.”
No, but what I'm going to say is, I am a person that I'm a study-war-no-more kind of Christian. I'm a red-letter Christian. I don't believe in war whether it is the governor of Texas literally trying to start another civil war over an issue that his party could solve tomorrow. There's literally a bill that they just could pass, right? And do the border security issue. Or whether it's in the Middle East. I was deeply against the Iraq.
I'm an anti-war person. And so, you know, I don't want to say that there's any side that is specifically to blame here, but I think the idea -- I think for most Americans, we're war weary. I think we're all weary of conflict, and we would like to see us progress economically, socially, try to bring this country back from the brink of racial hatred. Let's not do war at all.
HOSTIN: Yeah. Let's not kill people.
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