“They’re the reason why COVID is spreading across New York,” the former staffer claimed that Reid said during a morning conference call. “They don’t care about COVID or spreading it to others.”

HATE: Before her bigoted attacks on Whites and Jews Joy Reid spent a LOT of time attacking homosexuals. She wrote homophobic articles for her blog and outed politicians like Charlie Crist and Lindsey Graham for being gay. Joy is definitely not a Joy to be around. pic.twitter.com/R3snnSeKgx

— @amuse (@amuse) January 17, 2024

Political commentator Reid, 56, also allegedly said that Orthodox Jews “only care about themselves” and are “in their own bubble.” The Post reported that this claim was unchallenged.

The ex-assistant spoke to the Post anonymously after the network fired Reid in February because “people should know what her character is.”

“I was shocked she called out a group and generalized them,” said the assistant, adding what was more shocking was that the around 20 other people on the call “went along with it as if it’s a normal thing to say.”

Joy Reid cries speaking about the show being canceled. She says “My show had value” how laughable. Good riddens to her show and it’s extremely divisive rhetoric pic.twitter.com/74jO0U5pCC

— CartierFamily (@cartierfamilyZ) February 24, 2025

The Post said the source was too intimidated to speak out at the time of the comments though later told her boss, then-senior producer Lorena Ruiz, via Slack

Ruiz acknowledged that “Joy can be very careless with her language,” according to messages obtained by the Post. “Luckily, she is generally better on air than on the calls.”