Fired ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid mistakenly blasted the US for trying to stop Iran obtaining nuclear energy during her latest CNN appearance.  

Speaking on Newsnight earlier this week, Reid defended the country following the attacks on their nuclear sites by President Donald Trump over the weekend. 

The left-wing commentator said: ‘Why on earth is the United States bombing a country that did not attack us, what on earth are we doing there at all.

‘Why is it there is this arrogance in the west and in the United States to say that we get to decide who can have nuclear energy.’

Trump’s bunker buster bombing campaign was actually aimed at stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons, not nuclear power.  

Reid then added: ‘The bottom line here is the way we know that Iran did not have nuclear weapons, if they had nuclear weapons Israel would not have attacked them.

‘The reason they’re trying to get nukes is because an expansionist power in their region keeps threatening them and actually bomb[ing] them.’

CNN host Abby Phillip interrupted, saying: ‘Joy, this is not just about nukes. It’s also about Iran being a state sponsor of terrorism and chaos and violence and death around the world.’ 

The panel then decided into chaos over her remarks, with attorney Arthur Aidala slamming her for backing Iran. 

Speaking on CNN ‘s Newsnight earlier this week, Reid defended the country following the attacks on their nuclear sites by President Donald Trump over the weekend

A satellite view shows an overview of Fordow underground complex, after the U.S. struck the underground nuclear facility

He said: ‘Joy the fact that you are backing a country that slaughters homosexuals, that slaughters people for their religious beliefs. It’s crazy, it’s nuts.’

In response, she said that LGBTQ people weren’t allowed to serve in the US military under President Trump. 

Trump has banned transgender service personnel, but gays, lesbians and bisexuals are free to serve.  

Clearly angered, Aidala continued: ‘But they can live, they can get married they can have children. We’re not killing them!’ 

U.S. stealth bombers dropped 12 deep penetrator bombs, called bunker busters, on the Fordo nuclear facility and two on the Natanz site over the weekend. 

Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the attack as a success, but a US intelligence report has since emerged that seems to discredit that.

According to the preliminary report, it was found that Iran’s nuclear program had been set back only a few months. 

At a Pentagon briefing on Thursday, defense officials laid out details that bolstered their argument that the attack had wiped out the key sites. 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said: ‘You want to call it destroyed, you want to call it defeated, you want to call it obliterated, This was an historically successful attack.’

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of students in Tehran, Iran November 2, 2022

Reid’s remarks this week come after she said she was disillusioned with the Democratic party to the point she was just ‘hanging on’.

She told The Breakfast Club podcast on Tuesday that she believes the current Democrat line-up is fueling Trump’s agenda by failing to provide opposition. 

‘I’ve been a Democrat since I was old enough to vote, but I’m barely hanging on,’ Reid told The Breakfast Club podcast on Tuesday. 

‘At this point, the party is not bigger than the future of my kids. I have three children, that have to live in this country as black people, and fascism doesn’t work for me.

‘I’m not willing to cede the country to Trumpism and MAGA simply because I’m clinging to this party.’

Reid added that the party desperately needs a new leader, and a fresh ideology. She blasted Trump as having ‘no actual talent’ – but he still beat the Democrats. 

‘You have to blow up the whole Democratic Party,’ she said. 

‘I feel like the Democrats need a whole new ideology, because they lost to that,’ Reid added, referring to Trump.