Fired MSNBC host Joy Reid on Tuesday cast doubt on the veracity of the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt against President Donald Trump during an interview with former MSNBC host Katie Phang.
A gunman shot Trump in his right ear toward the beginning of his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, with Secret Service agents moving him off the stage as blood streamed down the side of his face. Yet Reid suggested during the interview on Phang’s YouTube channel that Trump may not have been shot, citing his recovery from the incident and what she claimed was a lack of documentation.
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“He’s got these magical doctors who claimed that he was shot in the ear, but his ear, I guess, grew back? He had a Duplo bandage on one minute, no bandage the next,” Reid said. “We can’t get a medical record from this alleged assassination. He was supposedly shot! We have nothing!”
Trump’s former physician and Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson released a medical update one week after Trump was nearly assassinated.
“I have been with President Trump since that time, and I have evaluated and treated his wound daily. He is doing well,” Jackson wrote. “As reported and witnessed by the entire world, he sustained a gunshot wound to right ear from a high-powered rifle used by the would be assassin.”
Trump still suffered “intermittent bleeding” at the time, which required “dressing to be in place,” according to Jackson. He wore a white bandage over his ear at his first public appearance following the shooting at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on July 16, 2024.
Jackson wrote that the bullet “came less than a quarter of an inch” from entering Trump’s head, producing a “2 cm wide wound that extended down the cartilaginous surface of the ear.” He also wrote that there was “initially significant bleeding” which resulted in “marked swelling” of Trump’s “entire upper ear.”
The New York Times’ Doug Mills even snapped a photograph that showed a bullet flying near Trump’s head immediately before he started to bleed.
Reid asserted there was no public information about the attempt, contrasting what she knew about it to past presidential assassination attempts and assassinations.
“I know more about the attempted Ford assassination than I do about Donald Trump! And the Gerald Ford thing happened when I was a child! And they put out more information almost immediately,” Reid said. “We know almost immediately almost everything about [John F.] Kennedy’s assassination. I know more about [William] McKinley’s assassination than I do about this attempt to assassinate Trump when he was a presidential candidate.”
“We’re getting nothing! And the mainstream media isn’t demanding his medical records,” she continued. “They’re not demanding anything. They’re terrified of this man!”
Reid also questioned whether Trump was shot in a July 17, 2024, Threads post.
“What caused Trump’s injury and what was the injury? Sh[r]apnel? Glass? A bullet?” she wrote.
Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman, shot Trump from the roof of a building around 400 feet from where he was speaking. He fired off multiple rounds, injuring crowd members and killing former volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore.
MSNBC canceled Reid’s primetime program, “The ReidOut,” in February.
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