MSNBC host praises 'DEI' officials prosecuting Trump: 'Wonderfully poetic'

MSNBC host Joy Reid praised some of the Black public officials prosecuting former President Trump, saying Monday "my DEIs are bringing it home."

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was the first person to criminally prosecute Trump, and it was "wonderfully poetic," Reid said. DEI, which stands for diversity, equity and inclusion, has become a hot topic of debate as conservative governments like Florida and Texas have banned such programs from college campuses.

"But for me, there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact … the first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a Black Harvard grad," Reid said. "The very kind of person that his former staff, the people who worked for him, Steven Miller, etc., want to never be at Harvard Law School. But he was. And he came out and graduated, and he’s prosecuting you, Donald."

"And a Black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia and a Black woman forced you to pay a $175 million fine," Reid continued, referring to District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia and New York Attorney General Letitia James. "Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural, multiracial democracy that he’s trying to dismantle … It says something good about our country that we’re still capable of having that happen. Go, DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home."

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Trump was indicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records in March 2023, following a yearslong investigation by Bragg. The charges against Trump are related to hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges, and the trial for the hush money case