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'Y’all got played': Joy Reid issues 3 reasons Trump attended NABJ in scathing fact-check

MSNBC's Joy Reid issued a blistering fact-check to Donald Trump following the ex-president's Q&A session with Black journalists in Chicago Wednesday. During the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) annual convention in the Windy City, a hostile Trump claimed he was unaware that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, is Black, and spewed baseless claims, such as that Harris is a "border czar." The MSNBC host began the latest episode of The ReidOut by correcting five of the MAGA hopeful's false statements. READ MORE: 'Full white-power': Trump lawyer blasted for blatant 'racism' during PA rally "First off, no, Donald. You are not the best president for Black people since Abraham Lincoln," Reid said. Not even close. For instance, you like to claim that you have the lowest black unemployment numbers when, in fact, that happened under President Biden. Second, Vice President Kamala Harris is Black. She's always identified as Black. Her father — also Black. Trump questions Kamala Harris' race during appearance at a gathering of Black journalists She continued, "Third, Vice President Harris was not the border czar. There's no such position in the federal government, Donald. President Biden tasked VP Harris to look at the root causes of undocumented mass migration to the United States and to negotiate compacts in central America to slow the flow of migrants, which she did, including with Guatemala. Not to monitor the border. Fourth, Kamala Harris absolutely passed the bar exam. That is how she became the district attorney of San Francisco, and the attorney general in the state of California. And a successful prosecutor. Donald, that is how she will own you in the next debate if you're not too chicken to show up." "And finally, while we debunked this one multiple times on this show," Reid emphasized, "we must say, yet again, that, no, Democrats do not support the killing of infants after birth. That is called infanticide. It is very, very illegal. A word you know a lot about, Donald, given your 34 count felony conviction, also illegal, having an elective abortion in the ninth month of a pregnancy. Which — just as an idea — is actually insane. The ReidOut host then directed her attention to NABJ's leadership. "I also just want to say one quick thing about this invitation," Reid continued. "To the president and board of NABJ: Y'all got played." READ MORE: 'Absolute dumpster fire': Trump’s interview with Black journalists shocks Fox News pundit Reid added, "Donald Trump showed up at the convention for exactly three reasons: One, to try to dispel the notion he's scared to debate a Black woman — a presumption one can draw from his refusal to debating VP Harris, who, again, for those in the back, is a Black and Asian woman. It's also why he lost it like a grumpy senior at the retirement home who didn't get his Jell-O dessert when ABC's Rachel Scott challenged him to answer basic questions. And how likely is it that he would have shown up at all the lady from the network that paid 787 million dollars legal settlement wasn't included on the panel." The second reason, Reid submits, is "to steal the attention that Vice President Kamala Harris has hijacked from him, because she's just more interesting, and her support is more joyous and rooted in popular American culture." Lastly, Reid emphasized that Trump wants "to create clips to play for his very white, very right-wing MAGA fan base of him standing up to the Blacks." Watch the video at this link. READ MORE: 'What exactly is a Black job?' Journalist corners Trump at contentious sit-down