Bernie Sanders: Hillary Clinton is Not Telling the Truth on Auto Bailout

[imagine2015]

Press Release

Clinton is Not Telling the Truth on Auto Bailout
May 16, 2016


SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign spokesman on Monday said Hillary Clinton should stop trying to distort the truth about Sanders’ support for legislation to help carmakers and auto workers.

Campaigning in Kentucky before Tuesday’s primary election, Clinton repeated her false claim that Sanders did not vote to fund an auto industry aid package in 2008. In fact, Sanders voted for a $14 billion aid package which passed the House of Representatives on Dec. 10, 2008. When that bill ran into a Senate Republican roadblock, the White House turned to a separate Wall Street bailout fund for loans to the auto industry.

“It is absolutely untrue to say that Sen. Sanders voted against helping the automobile industry and auto workers,” said Sanders’ spokesman Michael Briggs. “Secretary Clinton first made this false claim before the Michigan primary. She now is recycling the erroneous charge in Kentucky. Once again, Secretary Clinton is simply not telling the truth.”

When Clinton first mischaracterized Sanders’ position before Michigan’s March 8 primary, The Washington Post said Clinton was trying to deceive voters and that she “glosses over a lot . . . including the fact that Sanders is actually on the record as supporting the auto bailout. He even voted for it.” The Post also said of Clinton, “It seems like she’s willing to take the gamble that fact checkers may call her out for her tactic … but that voters won’t.”


Unlike Clinton, Sanders did vote against bailing out big banks after the 2008 economic collapse. “It is true that Sen. Sanders voted against bailing out the crooks on Wall Street whose illegal behavior and greed brought this economy into the worst downturn since the 1930s,” Briggs said.

https://berniesanders.com/press-release/clinton-not-telling-truth-auto-bailout/

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[AzDar]

1. Lying is just what she does... and her supporters seemingly don't care.

[KittyWampus]

21. Actually, Sanders is the liar. He doesn't get to do nuance on his own record

When he doesn't allow it for his opponent.

And here's the company he was in on that Bill:


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[AzDar]

24. This is only a sampling, mind you... Her lies are LEGION.

[Ned_Devine]

2. The Clintons find a lie they like and just run with it

[onecaliberal]

3. Sadly it was debunked in the first state and now the liar is out repeating it

[JudyM]

4. She has to make stuff up. Because they have so much real dirt on him.

[Jack Bone]

5. She's trying it again...

because it worked SO WELL in Michigan!!

[WhiteTara]

6. I thought the auto bailout was wrapped up in the bank bailout

and the bill Bernie voted on didn't pass. So in a sense, yes he did vote against the auto bailout.

[bettyellen]

8. Yes, he would have allowed the auto industry to fail- punitive action is his favorite tactic.

[imagine2015]

9. He voted against the Wall Street bank bailout. They could have passed the clean auto bailout bill

in the Senate with a straight up and down vote when they controlled the Senate by using their "nuclear option" power.

Folding an auto bailout into the Wall Street bill enabled the bi-partisan Democrats and Republicans to get the trillion dollar handout to Wall Street banksters with an easy majority vote without a filibuster. That was the catch and gimmick used that not all Democratic Senators were willing to support.

[KittyWampus]

22. No, sorry. Sanders doesn't get to do nuance. He does "simple answers".

Remember during one of the debates and he thought he was cute saying that to Clinton?

He voted with the Republicans.

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[uponit7771]

11. +1, that's the issue with purist... they feel good and get NOTHING

[imagine2015]

15. Wall Street banksters got exactly what they wanted! A clean auto bill could have been passed.

But most Democrats and Republican Senators wanted to help out their pals on Wall Street. They came first.

The Democrats controlled the Senate and they failed to use their control to pass a clean auto bailout bill.

[uponit7771]

29. Do you think people who vote for Hillary believe Sanders will change that?

[tularetom]

7. She isn't telling the truth about anything else either

Why should this be news?

[uponit7771]

10. Sanders also voted against the Brady Bill five times and voted for the 94 crime bill and voted to

... give gun corp immunity.

If that's what a socialist and a progressive does then shouldn't the left want to lean away from that?

tia

[imagine2015]

16. Do you think civilians should have the right to own personal fireams including hand guns and rifles?

Yes or No.

[imagine2015]

18. So what's your position on government gun control and confiscation?

I'm listening.

[kcr]

26. The answer to your question is, yes.

The truth is, Bernie is really not all that much better than Hillary. He's an American politician who has to work in the American political system just as much as she does. Both of them could do better but our system makes that really hard. Most Americans are like that old analogy of the frogs in the boiling pot. We just don't realize how bad it is.

[uponit7771]

28. Amen!!

[truedelphi]

12. Bernie uses far too many words. He could have easily stopped

Talking right after the word "Truth."

[Recursion]

13. Err... doesn't that release basically admit he voted against the bailout?

He voted for a bill that didn't pass, and voted against the bill that did pass and bailed out the automakers. Call me crazy, but that seems pretty clearly to be a vote, and it seems to have been against the auto bailout.

[imagine2015]

17. He voted for a clean auto bill that could have passed the Senate if Democrats wanted it.

It appears that most Senators were mainly concerned about working with Republicans to pass a Wall Street bailout bill and getting it easily passed by including some auto bailout funds.

He did not vote for that Wall Street bailout bill in the Senate.

I'm glad he didn't.

And nine Democratic Senators along with fifteen Republicans joined Sanders in voting against that Wall Street bill.

[Recursion]

23. So, agreed: he voted against the bailout that happened (nt)

[TwilightZone]

14. Considering that he's been hammering her for the crime bill he voted for...

I'm not sure he has any room to talk about "truth".

[Skwmom]

20. Who put forth and pushed the crime bill? The Clintons who only got people like Bernie to vote for

it by adding things they'd really like to see enacted for the people. And he stood up and spoke out about how Democrats needed to address the underlying CAUSES of crime.

[Skwmom]

19. I am so sick of this crap.

[pdsimdars]

25. Hillary doesn't know how to tell the truth she's been lying for so long.

[synergie]

27. Except that she is telling the truth, but according to Bernie.

the congressional record lies and Bernie never does when he says things that don't match the record.

The auto bailout funds came from a bill that Bernie voted against. Simple fact. Desperate Bernie lies to squeeze money from people he knows are not bright or literate enough to read the record and understand the words.