MSNBC’s Joy Reid compares ‘elderly’ Biden’s potential COVID recovery to Trump dodging an assassination attempt

Biden was discovered to have caught COVID for a second time during his presidency earlier…

New York Post

By Greg Price

MSNBC host Joy Reid posited that President Joe Biden’s potential recovery from COVID-19 would be the “exact same thing” as former President Donald Trump’s dodging of an assassin’s bullet during the network’s coverage of the Republican National Convention Wednesday night.

Biden was discovered to have caught COVID for a second time during his presidency earlier in the day, while the RNC celebrated its third night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Reid, who described both pols as “elderly,” first touched on the Secret Service pulling Trump off the Butler, Pa. stage after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on the former commander in chief in front of a stunned rally crowd on Saturday.

“These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who, for whatever reason,” Reid said, “was given nine seconds to take an iconic photo-op during an active shooter situation. Weird situation, we’ll figure that out one day.”

Reid then likened Trump avoiding the would-be assassin’s shots as “exactly the same thing” as Biden recuperating and coming back from COVID.

“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?” Reid said. “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 then appeared to double-back on her comments, stating: “I mean it’s not exactly the same, it’s not the same incident, it’s an elderly man coming out of an illness.”

Reid was sharing the network’s dais with former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who joined the network in May 2022 after leaving the administration, and nodded along with Reid’s take before adding, “It should,” according to a video of the segment.

Reid also suggested Biden could use the diagnosis to remind Americans about the dangers of COVID and “what hell we went through with COVID because of Donald Trump” and boost his campaign…