After news broke Thursday that the leftist prosecutor Alvin Bragg and his Grand Jury voted to indict Trump, Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis took to Twitter with a statement defending Trump and letting Americans know he would not help extradite the former President to New York to be arraigned. This news triggered the always unhinged MSNBC ReidOut host Joy Reid who used to occasion to claim DeSantis’s statement was a dog whistle that African Americans like Bragg are controlled by Jewish millionaires.
“The governor of Florida does not know the facts so he cannot talk about questionable facts in this case he doesn't know them. Only the Grand Jury knows them and this is a sealed indictment,” Reid huffed.
Lashing out at DeSantis once again, Reid cried that “this idea among the right that African Americans, that black folks who are in positions are controlled by some Jewish overseer who is pulling their strings, that's what that statement reads like.”
Reid continued her meltdown claiming that the statement DeSantis put out was “meant to trigger the far right for his political ambitions, that really do sound like that old meme that this black prosecutor must be under the secret control of this, you know, murky Jewish millionaire, that could be 1950.”
Nowhere in her incoherent ramblings did she explain how attacking Bragg amounted to a “dog whistle” that he’s controlled by “Jewish millionaires.”
The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head.
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) March 30, 2023
It is un-American.
The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is…
It’s obvious that Reid is looking to rile up her gullible audience and knows they will eat up whatever deranged conspiracy theory she spews at them.
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The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
MSNBC’s The ReidOut
3/30/2023
7:42:11 p.m. EasternJOY REID: It's also—my editorial comment is it is a statement without dignity. The governor of Florida does not know the facts so he cannot talk about questionable facts in this case he doesn't know them. Only the Grand Jury knows them and this is a sealed indictment. So he's making a statement about something he doesn't know the answer to and throwing out, as you said, Andrew, dog whistles, you know historically, this meme, this idea among the right that African Americans, that black folks who are in positions are controlled by some Jewish overseer who is pulling their strings, that's what that statement reads like.
And perhaps this governor should maybe read a history book because he might not understand what he is channeling but he's channeling an era in American history that is one of the most ugly, that he's probably not allowing to be taught in school. But that idea that this prosecutor, and by the way, it’s not just this prosecutor, Andrew, and I'll let you go on this and let you have a final word on it.
It was a Grand Jury that looked at facts, that looked at evidence, and this Grand Jury took a vote, which is part of our system. And so for the governor of one of our largest states and most important states to throw out a miasma of words that are meant to trigger the far right for his political ambitions, that really do sound like that old meme that this black prosecutor must be under the secret control of this, you know, murky Jewish millionaire, that could be 1950, and it is not dignified.
ANDREW WEISSMANN: Absolutely.
REID: It's beneath the dignity of a governor.
