Ex-MSNBC Host Claims Trump Assassination Attempt Never Happened

A fired former MSNBC host is raising doubts about whether the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump was genuine, fanning the flames of a far-left conspiracy theory that has persisted since he was shot last year.

Joy Reid, who was let go by the struggling news network earlier this year, said the “alleged” attempt on Trump’s life deserves more scrutiny, and she questioned how his ear “grew back” after the shooting. She also speculated about whether Trump was struck by a bullet or glass from a shattered teleprompter board that was also hit on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Penn.

“He’s got these magical doctors who claimed that he was shot in the ear, but his ear, I guess, grew back,” Reid remarked on Katie Phang’s YouTube channel. “He had a Dukal bandage on one minute, no bandage the next. We can’t get a medical record from this alleged assassination. He was supposedly shot. We have nothing. We’ve got no — we can’t even ask.”

Phang interjected, “Where are the investigative records? One day, he slapped a Maxi Pad on his ear. The next day, the ear is totally fine.”

“It’s fine!” Reid exclaimed. “I remember being in mainstream media where we both used to work, saying, ‘Isn’t it odd that we’ve never asked for his medical records?’ And I got in trouble for that. So, you’re not allowed to even say, ‘Isn’t that weird?’”

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The former “ReidOut” host argued that the public knows more about the assassination attempts against Gerald Ford and William McKinley than they do about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old deceased gunman who stalked the rally site for days before opening fire from a rooftop.

“We’re getting nothing. And the mainstream media isn’t demanding his medical records. They’re not demanding anything. They’re terrified of this man,” Reid said, Fox News reported.

Reid has previously theorized that Trump was not actually struck by a round from Crooks’s AR-15 rifle but rather a piece of glass from his teleprompter screen.

“I have many questions! Like where are the medical reports? What caused Trump’s injury and what was the injury? Shrapnel? [sic] Glass? A bullet? Where were the three attendees who were shot seated or standing relative to Trump? Why was Trump allowed to stand and pose for photos, fist pumping for nearly ten seconds while asking about his shoe when there could easily have been additional shooters?” Reid wrote in a post on Threads in 2024.

“How did the gunman manage to get on the roof of the building WHERE THE LOCAL POLICE WERE LITERALLY INSIDE?” she asked.