Trump's now the apparent poster child for the "defund the police" movement, delegitimizing the DOJ, FBI
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on The Readout. |
| 0:04.0 | It has been quite a journey for me from the darkness to the light. |
| 0:10.0 | When I sat with my family on the night of terror, |
| 0:15.0 | when Amy Till, I beloved Bow-Woo, was taken from us, |
| 0:19.0 | taken to be tortured and brutally murdered. |
| 0:22.0 | Back then in the darkness, I could never imagine a moment like this. |
| 0:28.0 | The Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. honoring his cousin, Emmett Till, |
| 0:33.0 | alongside President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, |
| 0:36.0 | on what would have been Till's 82nd birthday, |
| 0:40.0 | as the right wing continues to vandalize the history of Black people in America. |
| 0:45.0 | Also tonight, Trump plans for his next indictment |
| 0:48.0 | by making threats of violence, |
| 0:50.0 | with special counsel Jack Smith reportedly interested in Trump's sudden change of heart |
| 0:55.0 | about election security in 2020, plus the remarkable smallness of the Republican presidential field. |
| 1:01.0 | Defeating an indicted candidate who does nothing but lose shouldn't be this hard. |
| 1:06.0 | And yet, they're failing. |
| 1:11.0 | But we begin tonight with 2016 Donald Trump, |
| 1:14.0 | who ran for President back then as a man who amid calls to end police violence against Black Americans, |
| 1:20.0 | back to the blue, 100%. |
| 1:24.0 | I am the big, big believer, |
| 1:27.0 | and admirer of the people in law enforcement, okay, from day one. |
| 1:34.0 | When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, |
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