<p>MSNBC host Joy Reid said on Monday that she had very real concerns about the aftermath of Saturday&#8217;s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump — namely that media would &#8220;acquiesce&#8221; and allow Trump to &#8220;rewrite himself&#8221; as a sympathetic victim.</p>
<p>Reid made the comments during a panel discussion that included fellow MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace along with former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and she said people she&#8217;d talked to were afraid that media would allow Americans to forget that Trump was &#8220;the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence &#8230; since George Wallace.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Joy Reid fears that, after the assassination attempt on Trump, &#8220;the media will acquiesce&#8221; to Republicans and not label Trump &#8220;the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence&#8230;since George Wallace.&#8221;</p>
<p>She doesn&#8217;t want Trump to &#8220;rewrite himself as a victim.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/f5QSVcYwkO">pic.twitter.com/f5QSVcYwkO</a></p>
<p>— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1812991398758486524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;The universal kind of reaction that I am getting, whether from civilians or you know professionals, is really a deep concern and lack of confidence in — not us at this table or us at MSNBC, but us as the media write large — and fear that what&#8217;s going to happen now &#8230; is that the media will acquiesce to trying to convince people that the thing they&#8217;ve been experiencing you know for the last five, six years didn&#8217;t happen,&#8221; Reid explained. &#8220;That the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence, really you know since anyone can remember, since George Wallace, I think, you know that we just haven&#8217;t experienced this kind of open you know sort of citing, or incitement of violence or sort of luxuriating in the idea of violence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Reid then claimed that people were expressing concern that media would not &#8220;be the guardians of memory&#8221; and would &#8220;allow Donald Trump, as he&#8217;s you know bathed in the glory and grandeur of his party to rewrite himself as both a hero and a victim that people who are the most vulnerable to not just the things he&#8217;s done but the things he&#8217;s promising to do, and that that will happen without a guardian saying wait, stop, and then the media will acquiesce to this rewrite.&#8221;</p>

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