Joy Reid vouching for the veracity of a Donald Trump attack ad? Yup, it actually happened today!

Reid seems supremely skeptical that socialist Bernie Sanders can beat President Trump. On her MSNBC show today, Reid told Sanders's campaign manager Faiz Shakir that the ads the Trump campaign would run against Sanders should he be the nominee would be "true" and "actual." She specifically mentioned video of Bernie praising Castro and "Russia" [sic, presumably meant the Soviet Union.]

Reid acknowledged that in his recent passionate condemnation of socialism, MSNBC's Chris Matthews "represents a lot of voters."

Reid also said that swing states like Florida would be off the table for Sanders, because "there are just some people who for whatever reason, whether they're right or wrong, are just not going to vote for a socialist. Period."

Is Reid being sincere, or is she simply knocking Bernie down to clear the path for a female candidate like Warren or Klobuchar? Has Reid perhaps heard from Barack Obama, who reportedly said "that he would try to stop Sanders if he were poised to clinch the nomination?" Probably all those factors are behind Reid's rap on Sanders. Be that as it may, to hear Joy Reid say that prospective Trump attack ads will be "true" was, to quote our late, great Noel Sheppard, delicious.

Note: here's the kind of opposition-research gold that Reid was talking about: a video of Sanders praising Fidel Castro and communist Cuba, and an article describing Sanders's positive statements about the Soviet Union.

Here's the transcript.