The ReidOut with Joy Reid, Aug. 07, 2020



Duration: 47 Minutes



Discussed Today:

‘A fan club’:

Trump calls for press conference with his country club members acting as audience

Swalwell:

Trump won’t learn a ‘damn thing’ from his country club, should be concerned about pandemic

Joy on 'pig laws': ‘The rot from slavery is still with us in a thousand different ways’

James Carville on Trump deferring payroll tax to next year:

Not very good policy, a lot of people not on a payroll



Discussed Today, In Detail:



‘A fan club’: Trump calls for press conference with his

country club members acting as audience

The Associated Press’s Jon Lemire reports on The ReidOut that Trump is calling

for a press conference with his country club members acting as an audience. Joy

says, “The President apparently has assembled a fan club of members of his golf

club ... without masks on, to be the audience so he could have applause during a

press conference."

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Swalwell: Trump won’t learn a ‘damn thing’ from his country club,

should be concerned about pandemic

Trump is calling for a press conference with his country club members acting as

an audience. Congressman Swalwell says, "The president isn't going to learn a

damn thing from anyone at his country club right now. He needs to be concerned

about evictions .. about the deal he needs to strike on the HEROES Act that

Speaker Pelosi, who's at the capitol right now."

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Joy on 'pig laws': ‘The rot from slavery is still with us in a thousand different ways’

Louisiana’s Supreme Court declined last week to review the life sentence of a

Black man who was convicted more than two decades ago of trying to steal a pair

of hedge clippers, court documents show. Sentences like these are an example of

post Civil War rules known as “Pig Laws,” designed to keep Black people in

poverty. Joy says, “But here’s the thing, the rot from slavery and its aftermath

are still with us, in a thousand different ways.”

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James Carville on Trump deferring payroll tax to next year:

Not very good policy, a lot of people not on a payroll

On Trump announcing he’ll defer the payroll tax a few months, James Carville

says, "It's not very good policy. If you're paying a payroll tax, it means

you're on a payroll. We have all kinds of people in this country that would like

to be on a payroll and they're not."

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