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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Trump's bizarre music session reignites questions about his mental acuity

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The ReidOut, Joy Reid leads with new questions arising about Donald Trump’s mental acuity after he appeared to get stuck on "pause" during a town hall, swaying to music for nearly 40 minutes. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris is in Detroit, holding a town hall with Charlamagne Tha God as part of her efforts to reach more Black voters. Plus, we will explore the false and twisted Republican narrative that Democrats are "hunting" Trump, aimed at stifling legitimate outrage over his bizarre, violent, and fascist rhetoric as a two-time presidential nominee. Listen now.

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0:00.0

Tonight on the readout.

0:05.0

Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged. I spend the sound on a way to eat you.

0:18.9

Like a good thing like some. new questions about Trump's mental acuity after he seems to get stuck on

0:30.6

pause during a town hall and begin swaying to music for nearly 40 minutes.

0:39.2

Meanwhile Vice President Harris is in Detroit holding a town hall with Charlemagne, the God, in her attempt to reach

0:46.0

more black voters. Plus the false and twisted Republican narrative that Trump is being hunted by Democrats in an effort to

0:55.7

stifle legitimate outrage over his bizarre, violent, fascist ruminations as a

1:02.2

second-time presidential candidate.

1:08.6

And we begin tonight with early voting in Georgia and Utah now underway joining almost 20 states that are already

1:15.7

voting which comes as the two candidates are leading to distinctly different

1:21.0

campaigns. The septogenarian candidate Donald Trump spent yesterday

1:25.8

in the battleground state of Pennsylvania hosting one of the most bizarre events in modern American political history.

1:37.0

He showed up an hour late after his supporters had already been waiting for hours in a room that was entirely too hot.

1:45.4

By the time he made it onto the stage for a Q&A, not with a journalist or anyone from Pennsylvania,

1:52.1

but rather with the original canine killer, South Dakota

1:55.9

Governor Kristi Nome. People were fainting. Audience members shouted that the room was too hot,

2:01.9

and here is how Trump responded.

2:06.1

Personally I enjoy this we lose weight you know no you lose way we could do this

2:11.4

lose four or five pounds it's okay with me.

2:13.6

Kamala Harris is but some people have been waiting here for two days for this.

2:16.7

And it only got weirder from there. What followed was more than 30 minutes of

2:22.2

Trump swaying on stage

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