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🗓️ 14 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Joy Reid leads this episode of the ReidOut with the latest on Trump’s incoming Middle East Advisor, Massad Boulos, who is also Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law. According to new reporting, Boulos is not a billionaire after all, he just allowed people to say he was. Joy and her guests discuss this plus renewed vaccine skepticism with RFK Jr’s lawyer asking the Federal Drug Administration to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. Plus, Joy and her guests discuss Senate Republicans’ pressure campaign on Trump cabinet picks, as well as the White House strategy for combating Islamophobia. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on the readout.
0:05.0	My new Trump fragrances are here.
0:08.0	They make a great Christmas present.
0:10.0	Get yourself a bottle and don't forget to grab one for your loved ones too.
0:14.0	They'll thank you and they'll even smell good.
0:17.0	Ah, yes, the pungent scent of grift. Donald Trump and many of his closest mega colleagues are
0:24.7	shamelessly cashing in on the election. It's a preview of his presidency where there'll be no lines drawn
0:32.1	between the Trump administration and the Trump money-making machine. Also, tonight, RFK Jr. could soon be the nation's top health official,
0:40.3	and Trump is giving him the green light to get the old gang back together.
0:44.3	You know, polio, measles, meningitis, those guys.
0:48.3	But we begin tonight with one of the Trumps, no, not him, but rather his daughter, and no not that daughter, the other one, Tiffany Trump, the daughter who isn't Ivanka, but rather the daughter of the model that Trump cheated on Ivanka's mom Ivana with than married before dumping that wife from Melania.
1:09.4	The daughter Trump seemingly snubbed at the RNC when she
1:12.6	went in for a kiss in a moment that went viral. Well, Tiffany may not be daddy's favorite, but she
1:18.4	seems to be doing well for herself. She married Michael Bulos, the son of a Lebanese purported billionaire
1:24.2	in 2018, which I'm sure pleased dear old dad who really, really likes
1:29.2	billionaires. Here's Tiffany with Michael and Donald the day before her Mar-a-Lago wedding in
1:34.4	2022. But now we're learning that there is more and in some ways less to the story. The New York
1:41.7	Times reports that Tiffany Trump's father-in-law, Masad Boulos,
1:45.1	isn't a billionaire after all. He just allowed people to say he was a billionaire when he knew
1:49.6	that he really wasn't. Massad Boulos also happens to be Trump's incoming Middle East
1:54.2	advisor and led Trump's campaign outrage to Arab Americans, especially in Michigan.
1:59.7	Trump loves the guy, even called him a deal maker.
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