Joy Reid called 'desperate' as she slams media for 'selling a lie' to justify Trump's military move in LA

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Former MSNBC host Joy Reid is pushing back against what she calls a “manufactured crisis” in Los Angeles, accusing both President Donald Trump and major news outlets of distorting the reality on the ground during the city’s controversial immigration enforcement crackdown.

In a fiery post on her A Daily Reid Substack newsletter, the political commentator took aim at the mainstream media, accusing them of enabling the Trump administration’s justification for deploying military forces to Southern California.

Joy Reid accuses mainstream media of fueling false narrative about LA

According to Joy Reid, the media has helped “sell a lie” that paints the city as dangerously unstable when, in her view, most of Los Angeles remains calm despite ongoing protests. She wrote, “The mainstream media at this point, is participating in selling a lie that Los Angeles is so out of control, it’s plausible that Trump would send in the military as an occupying stabilizing force.”

Reid, who recently transitioned into podcasting after losing her primetime slot on MSNBC, revealed that she and her team have been reporting from Los Angeles since last Thursday. “The lies the regime is telling about Los Angeles are easy to disprove,” she wrote. “You just have to go to Los Angeles.”

From West Hollywood to City Hall, Reid claims her crew witnessed not an anarchic breakdown, but a peaceful city marred by ICE raids that disproportionately target Latino residents. She described the federal operation as a “warlike” mission that terrorizes working-class communities rather than capturing violent criminals, the stated goal of the president’s campaign.

In her Sunday dispatch, Reid wrote that her photographer was embedded in the heart of the protests downtown as ICE conducted what she called “military-style raids” across the county. “They are terrorizing randomly selected brown people all over the state and making racial profiling great again,” she wrote, describing the operation as part of what she called Trump’s “3,000-a-day kidnap quota.”

Trump’s deployment of over 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines has been met with fierce resistance from California leaders. Both Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have spoken out against the move, suggesting the presence of federal troops has exacerbated tensions rather than restored order.

Joy Reid blasts Donald Trump and Pam Bondi over 'fake dystopia' narrative in LA

Joy Reid is calling out what she describes as a calculated fear campaign by the Trump administration, accusing the president and key allies of exaggerating unrest in Los Angeles to justify a military presence in California.

Reid blasted former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, and Fox News host Pete Hegseth as helping paint a “fake, dystopian version” of LA to support what she called a “military occupation” of the state.

“Trump, Bondi, Hegseth, and the puppy killer Kristi Noem have created a fake, dystopian version of Los Angeles as a cheap excuse to launch a military occupation of California,” Reid wrote. She warned that the administration is now floating the use of the Insurrection Act, a rarely used federal law that would allow Trump to deploy military forces nationwide under the guise of quelling civil unrest.

Reid also took aim at national media outlets for sensationalizing the unrest, suggesting that exaggerated coverage is playing into the administration’s narrative.

“Mainstream journalists are even going so far as to casually inquire about the Insurrection Act,” she wrote, linking to CNN reports that described downtown LA in apocalyptic terms. “LA is a “perfectly normal, quiet city almost everywhere,” she added. 

Internet slams Joy Reid after she claims media is ‘selling a lie’ about LA protests

Joy Reid is facing intense backlash online after accusing mainstream media outlets of misrepresenting the recent wave of protests in Los Angeles.

One user wrote, “Joy Reid posting on the chaos she helped create by platforming Dem-hating radicals every damn day.”

Another wrote, “She's one of the reasons we're here!”

A third user added, “She is so desperate. She should retire and STFU.”

Others mocked the lack of credible reporting in Reid’s remarks, “That’s really boring. No comments from people nearby? Let’s scan walls tagged with graffiti? Yikes!”

Another said, “Maybe Kamala wasn’t as evil as y’all thought when you were piling on Dems with Republicans.”

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