Joy Reid suggests Biden should set up a ‘Trump Crimes Commission’ if elected president

Reid, a frequent Trump critic on the network, was discussing a Senate Intelligence Committee report released this week that found members of the intelligence community considered former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to be a “grave counterintelligence threat” over his ties to Russia.

“It strikes me in just reading through this that Paul Manafort did to the United States what he had previously done to Ukraine,” Reid said. “He had messed with their elections in the past in order to put a Putin puppet in charge. And now you have a president who’s ruminating apparently on meeting with Vladimir Putin in New York, has talked about putting him back in the G7, and seems to be doing everything — you know, if there was a Christmas list that Vladimir Putin would have put together, it couldn’t have gotten any better than what Donald Trump is doing.”

Earlier this week, Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat, floated a similar idea relative to setting up a government body to investigate whether Trump or his associates broke the law while in office.

“I don’t say this lightly: when we escape this Trump hell, America needs a Presidential Crimes Commission,” Swalwell tweeted. “It should be made up of independent prosecutors who look at those who enabled a corrupt president. Example 1: Sabotaging the mail to win an election.”