Former MSNBC host Joy Reid is casting doubt on last year’s assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, echoing a far-left conspiracy theory that has circulated since the shooting.
Reid, who was dismissed from the network earlier this year, referred to the attempt as “alleged” and questioned how Trump’s ear “grew back” after he was wounded. She also speculated whether he was struck by a bullet or by glass from a shattered teleprompter during the July 13, 2024, rally in Butler, Pa.
“He’s got these magical doctors who claimed that he was shot in the ear, but his ear, I guess, grew back,” Reid remarked on Katie Phang’s YouTube channel. “He had a Dukal bandage on one minute, no bandage the next. We can’t get a medical record from this alleged assassination. He was supposedly shot. We have nothing. We’ve got no — we can’t even ask.”
Phang interjected, “Where are the investigative records? One day, he slapped a Maxi Pad on his ear. The next day, the ear is totally fine.”
“It’s fine!” Reid exclaimed. “I remember being in mainstream media where we both used to work, saying, ‘Isn’t it odd that we’ve never asked for his medical records?’ And I got in trouble for that. So, you’re not allowed to even say, ‘Isn’t that weird?’”
The former ReidOut host claimed the public knows more about the assassination attempts on Presidents Gerald Ford and William McKinley than about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman who opened fire from a rooftop after reportedly scouting the rally site for days.
“We’re getting nothing. And the mainstream media isn’t demanding his medical records. They’re not demanding anything. They’re terrified of this man,” Reid said, Fox News reported.
Reid has previously theorized that Trump was not actually struck by a round from Crooks’s AR-15 rifle but rather a piece of glass from his teleprompter screen.
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