MSNBC primetime hosts‘ controversial comments during their coverage of the Republican National Convention raised eyebrows and drew criticism this week.
Despite calls on the left and right for the temperature to be dialed down following the assassination attempt against former President Trump, MSNBC hosts continued making inflammatory remarks during their coverage of the Republican National Convention this week.
Primetime hosts at the liberal network accused candidates of being secret racists and even gave a platform to conspiracy theories questioning if Trump was actually shot.
Here are five of the most eyebrow-raising remarks by MSNBC primetime hosts covering the RNC this past week.Alex Wagner: JD Vance is a secret White nationalist, despite being married to an Indian woman
MSNBC host Alex Wagner attracted headlines after she claimed that Trump’s pick for vice president, JD Vance, dropped „Easter eggs of White nationalism“ by saying during his RNC speech that he wanted to be buried in his family’s plot in Kentucky.
„I just think the construction of this notion reveals a lot about someone who fundamentally believes in the supremacy of whiteness and masculinity, and it’s couched in a sort of halcyon, you know, revisitation of his roots, but it is actually really revealing about what he thinks matters and who America is, and that America is a place for people with his shared Western background“, Wagner said. Joy Reid: Getting better from COVID is like surviving getting shot
MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who questioned whether Trump was actually shot with a bullet at his rally on Saturday, argued on Wednesday that President Biden getting COVID-19 and recovering was „exactly the same thing“ as Trump surviving an assassination attempt.
„This current President of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID, should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn’t that convey exactly the same thing? That he’s strong enough – older than Trump – to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age. So, if he does fine out of it and comes back and is able to do rallies, isn’t that exactly the same?“ Reid asked.
Reid also seemed to entertain far-left theories casting doubt on the former president’s injuries.
„These two men are both elderly.
