Joy Reid flips an old attack on its head and compares Islamic extremists to Trump supporters

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For a minute there, MSNBC’s Joy Reid sounded a lot like the time-traveling hackers who uploaded anti-Muslim remarks to her now-defunct blog.

The cable news host and conspiracy theory enthusiast remarked this week, amid a larger discussion on President Trump and radicalization, that leaders in “the Muslim world” often “encourage their supporters” to commit acts of violence against their enemies.

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