Joy Reid is a star - I can't add anything to what she said because she said it perfectly.
Joy Reid :
"And he also produced it in the sense that he could have just accepted the peaceful transfer of power. It's what every other president did. Hillary Clinton I'm sure was devastated at losing an election to this guy who is the most inadequate human being who has ever been president of the United States. She accepted it, she congratulated him. All 45 previous presidents have managed to do that very simple thing. George Washington didn't even have to be asked to do it before there was a 22nd amendment. Every one did it. He created this in the sense that we did not have to be here. Our democracy did not have to be here. We didn't have to be in a position where the former president of the United States is now going to be booked like a common criminal with a mug shot. That is his fault! He did it! He wanted to the spectacle of being president for life! He wanted to NOT leave office! He wanted to be this, he decided to be KING and now he is the KING OF SCANDAL AND DISREPUTE! "
.The video below DOES NOT have the above quote, but shows her talking about Trump and the Exonerated Five and how Trump made them get mugshots and how Trump wanted them dead!
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"I can tell you for me, when I moved back to New York , one of the mug shots that sit with me, I mean, I still remember he made five teenagers my age take a mugshot, that he wanted them not just to take a mugshot, he wanted them dead.
Rachel:
And this was the Central Park Five
Joy: This was the Central Park Five case. The Exonerated Five. You know and they are my age. So, as a teenager, living in New York, I've said before, I never watched The Apprentice. I despised Donald Trump! Because he to me signify the rich white guy in Manhattan that absolutely hated and despised me, that hated and despised my cousins, my friends, everyone we knew, that called us wildly just because we were in the Park, that said we can be free to walk around in the street that said when Patrick Doorsma got killed by an off duty police officer, he's no choir boy, I mean he was literal I mean that he was no altar boy, and I mean he was literally, an altar boy. Guliani said that. People like Guliani and people like Trump persecuted Black and Brown people in New York. It's what did for fun. It's what they did for pleasure. They enjoyed it. They enjoyed lording over people who had nothing, who had no millionaire dollar lawyers, who couldn't change lawyers at the drop of a hat and get a different hip hop lawyer the next day when they were tired of one, who couldn't go out and make their case on, you know, Fox or on News Max who had nothing and who Donald Trump lorded his everything over and still people who looked like them put him in rap songs. It was an indignity to me that something I loved, a culture I loved would lionize that and so to me this is justice, the fact that Manhattan didn't give him a mugshot I thought was offensive. I thought that the feds, "We already know what he looks like, he was the president of the United States ." Okay, offensive, everyone else had to take them. This case and I think Fani Willis is a hero! She is a national hero! Because she more than any prosecutor in this country and I respect Jack Smith and I respect all the prosecutors that are doing this, she is the only one who said these wealthy, powerful privileged men and women are just American citizens and when they break the law, they WILL take that picture!