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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Trump vows again to blow up America's institutions if he finds his way back to the Oval Office

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with Donald Trump once again vowing to blow up America's institutions if he somehow finds his way back to the Oval Office, as his lawyers fight in court for the right to potentially intimidate witnesses in the lead-up to his criminal trials. Plus, polls are closing in Ohio in the special election designed to limit democracy and give Republicans minority control over critical issues like abortion. We bring you the latest. Next, we highlight the brawl on an Alabama dock that launched a thousand memes. Why is this fight resonating so much? The mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, Steven Reed, joins us with an update. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Tonight on The Readout, I will direct a completely over-told DOJ to investigate every radical

0:11.0

DA and AG in America for their illegal racist and reverse enforcement of the law.

0:19.8

Racist and reverse.

0:20.8

Trump, once again, vowing to blow up America's institutions if he somehow finds his way

0:25.5

back to the Oval Office, as his lawyers fight in court for the right to potentially intimidate

0:30.9

witnesses in the lead up to his criminal trials, plural.

0:35.4

Plus, we're just minutes away from the polls closing in Ohio in the special election

0:39.5

designed to limit democracy and give Republicans minority control over critical issues like abortion.

0:46.9

And the brawl on an Alabama doc that launched a thousand memes.

0:52.4

Why is this fight resonating so much?

0:55.2

And will the folding chair wind up in a museum?

1:00.2

But we begin tonight with Donald Trump obliterating norms for his political and personal gain.

1:07.3

Norms like rooting for your country on the international stage.

1:11.0

Call it patriotism fandom, however you want to characterize it.

1:14.5

We generally root for the home team when American athletes compete abroad.

1:18.9

And we are sad with them when they lose.

1:22.1

The defeats can be soul-crushing.

1:24.9

And a lot of stomachs churned on Sunday when the U.S. soccer team lost to Sweden in the women's world cup.

1:30.9

It was an agonizing moment for the top ranked women's soccer team in the world.

1:35.6

Especially when soccer star Megan Rapinoe missed a crucial penalty kick contributing to the loss.

1:42.2

And that's something weird happened.

1:43.9

Conservatives relished America's loss, expressing a maniacal glee over there.

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