While Trump is on trial, Biden hits the campaign trail
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on the readout. |
| 0:05.0 | I was reminded of what my opponent said in Paris not too long ago. They asked him to go visit American grave sites. He said |
| 0:15.9 | no he wouldn't do it because they were all suckers and losers. I'm not making that up. |
| 0:25.0 | Staff was with and acknowledge it today. |
| 0:27.0 | Suckers are losers. |
| 0:30.0 | And undeserved. |
| 0:38.0 | To be the commander-chief for my son. |
| 0:54.5 | President Biden today clearly moved by the malevolence of his opponent Donald Trump who used his day off from his criminal trial not to campaign but rather to meet with a right-wing foreign leader who was once mocked for proposing naming a military base in his country, Fort Trump. Also tonight Trump whines |
| 0:59.6 | about not getting unlimited jury strikes which is not a thing in criminal trials as he |
| 1:04.5 | pathetically continues to attack the judge and the prosecutor. Plus Sergeant |
| 1:10.3 | Aichelino Gonell who was brutally beaten by members of Trump's insurrectionist mob on January 6th, |
| 1:16.7 | joins me as National Guard whistleblowers testify about what really happened on that violent disgraceful day. |
| 1:25.0 | But we begin tonight with the remarkable split screen this week from the two major parties presidential |
| 1:33.8 | candidates. On Tuesday while Donald Trump was in a Manhattan courtroom for |
| 1:38.6 | the second day of his criminal trial, President Biden was in his childhood hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, |
| 1:45.0 | campaigning like a normal candidate. |
| 1:47.2 | Laying out his tax plan that includes ending Trump's tax cut for |
| 1:50.4 | billionaires and tax relief and economic booths for regular Americans. |
| 1:55.2 | During her day in court, the presumptive Republican nominees spent his time looking |
| 2:00.1 | agitated and getting admonished by the judge for intimidating a juror. |
| 2:04.6 | Later in the day he transitioned to campaigning, visiting a New York City Bodega, which, you know, seems |
| 2:09.7 | totally normal for a campaign, right? |
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