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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Trump expands Elon Musk's power to cut federal jobs

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with what she sees as the latest signs of the gangster-like governance of the current U.S. administration. The Department of Justice, under Donald Trump, has dismissed the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a way that keeps him vulnerable to future prosecution, while former WWE CEO Vince McMahon has seen a criminal probe into allegations of sexual misconduct dropped. Coincidentally, McMahon’s wife, Linda, is Trump’s nominee for Education Secretary, and her confirmation is expected to sail through. Meanwhile, reports are emerging of missing federal funds, and the first death has been attributed to the dismantling of USAID, with a 71-year-old refugee in Myanmar dying after her oxygen supply was cut due to hospital closures caused by the withdrawal of U.S. foreign aid. Plus, protests are growing at home, with an artist in D.C. unfurling a sign alleging that, "Elon is stealing your data," coinciding with Tesla’s stock dropping 13% since Trump’s inauguration.

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0:00.0

Thank you all for joining us. We have a lot to get to in the next hour of the readout,

0:04.0

including chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Green, let that sink in, leading the first hearing of the

0:09.3

Doge subcommittee, the only Doge thing that actually exists in real life, but which will certainly

0:14.7

not delve into Elon Musk's glaring conflicts of interest and potential self-enrichment.

0:20.0

And remember the toilet paper crisis of 2020,

0:22.6

the last time Trump was president,

0:23.6

when you couldn't beg, borrow or steal a roll?

0:26.6

Now, under Trump the sequel, we have the egg crisis of 2025,

0:30.6

with soaring prices and lines like this one outside of egg farms.

0:34.6

And Trump is doing nothing about it,

0:36.6

after promising to bring grocery prices down

0:39.4

starting on day one. But we begin tonight with more and more signs of the sheer open

0:45.8

gangsterism of the current iteration of the U.S. government. We have Donald Trump's Department

0:50.7

of Justice ordering the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to be dismissed, but in a way that keeps him on the hook for future prosecution if he doesn't play ball.

1:01.5

And he isn't the only Trump ally breathing a sigh of relief, at least for now.

1:05.8

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have dropped a criminal probe that focused on whether former world wrestling

1:11.8

entertainment boss Vince McMahon tried to cover up multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.

1:18.4

Those charges sound so familiar, don't they? I'm going to noodle on it to see if I can recall

1:21.8

what they're similar to. And it must be totally coincidental that McMahon's wife, Linda,

1:27.3

is Trump's choice for education secretary and will likely breeze through her confirmation hearing starting tomorrow since every Senate Republican has been brought to heal like good doggies for fear of Trump and his boss, Elon's wrath.

1:42.6

Meanwhile, Trump, Musk, Inc. are still mowing down federal departments. We're hearing

1:47.8

reports from states of money not arriving when it should. And we've now seen the first death

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