MSNBC’s Reid: Trump Reopening America Because Coronavirus Mostly Kills Black People

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MSNBC's Joy Reid claims Trump is reopening America's economy because more black people die from coronavirus than anybody else

MCNBC host Joy Read has accused President Trump of moving on from the coronavirus pandemic because it is “disproportionately killing people who are black and brown, which is not his base.”

On Sunday’s “AM Joy,” former CBC News anchor Dan Rather said:

“Joy, I think it’s important to point out that this has developed as it became increasingly clear that those who are suffering the most from the coronavirus are people above a certain age and people below a certain level on the economic scale. And once the president became convinced, ‘Okay, it’s those people at the bottom end of the economic scale and some people above, say, age 70 or 80,’ then he took this strategy, this tactic saying, I’m just going to talk about positive things and let the devil take the high note with the deaths. That’s the way of normalizing the deaths.”

Reid responded:

“Yeah, it’s very —it’s hard to ignore the fact, absolutely as you said, as it has emerged also that it’s disproportionately killing people who are black and brown, which is not his base. You know, so he has sort of moved in a direction that can keep his base thinking, ‘Well those people are the ones at risk, it doesn’t matter to me.’ That is very difficult to miss as well.”

5 Comments

  1. With manipulative behaviour like that coming out of them I wouldn’t blame him if it were true. In italy now they’re saying smoking cigarettes protects people from the virus So lung cancer and associated smoking related diseases which are much more likely than 0.1 percent charge if killing you is what theyrecunducating is preferable to risking the virus.Its the new logic

  2. Hello Joy – do you have ANY idea what has been happening in China? Do you know that probably millions of CHINESE people have died from coronavirus in China?? How can you think it’s mostly blacks, when this is worldwide in 180 countries, many of those countreis don’t even have black folks there. Joy, you are a moron, go pound sand.

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