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Joy Reid: Those Re-Open Protests Are All About Helping Trump And Wall St., Not Main St.
Joy Reid explained why those MAGA re-open protests that have coincidentally sprung up in states Trump needs to win in November are a lot like the anti-Obamacare Tea Party protests - but with more lethal consequences for everyone.
By News Hound Ellen
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/04/joy-reid-those-re-open-protests-are-all
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Reid opened her show today with a blistering critique of the citizen protesters risking their own lives and those of everyone they come into contact with by defying stay-at-home orders. She played a clip of Michigans Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer saying that the maskless protesters deliberately touching each other are precisely what makes this kind of a disease drag out and expose more people.
What's especially tragic is that the protesters are risking their lives and ours on behalf of fat cats like Trump and his cronies who are remaining safe at home.
REID: Let's be clear. These are organized political rallies.
This week after saying he had total authority to reopen the country, a claim that is categorically untrue based on the Constitution and federal law, Trump on Thursday reversed course and said oh, no, no, wait, it's up to governors to make that call. Only to take to Twitter on Friday to call for the quote, liberation of Minnesota, Michigan and Virginia.
In his tweet about liberating Virginia, he even threw in some gun-loving scare tactics saying the state's Second Amendment was quote, under siege. I mean, what is he calling for? Armed MAGA supporters to defy their governors' orders and storm back to their low paid jobs? Booming Wall Street or bust?
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