In a surreal moment on MSNBC, host Joy Reid argued to former White House propagandist Jen Psaki that Joe Biden having just been diagnosed with COVID is basically the same thing as Donald Trump surviving being shot in the side of the head last Saturday.
“They [Democrats] need to show him [Biden] strong and powerful, they have a more immediate challenge right now, which is projecting to the Democratic Party he’s inevitable and up to the job,”Psaki said
Reid chimed in to argue that Biden’s struggles in beating COVID could be viewed as “the same” as Trump surviving an assassination attempt.
“Here’s the question that I have on that. These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who for whatever reason was given nine seconds to take an iconic photo op during an active shooter situation,” Reid said, hinting that she thought the shooting was somehow “staged.”
“Weird situation, we’ll figure that out one day. But his survival of that and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength. 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?”
Sensing that most would realize how insane this sounds, she did add one small qualified to her her statements; “I mean, it’s not exactly the same, it’s not the same incident, but it’s an elderly man coming out of an illness.”
