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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Rips Donald Trump While Calling Out The Bigoted Billionaire’s Racism
Bernie Sanders Rips Donald Trump While Calling Out The Bigoted Billionaires RacismBy: Jason Easley - PoliticusUSA
Friday, September, 4th, 2015, 4:21 pm

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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) ripped Donald Trump at a Latino roundtable in Iowa. Sanders stood up to the Republican bully by calling out Trumps racism.
According to the Sanders campaign:
In a statement, Sanders said: This country has experienced racism for hundreds of years. I would have hoped that by the year 2015 leading candidates for president like Mr. Trump would campaign on their ideas as to how they can address our serious problems, and not by trying to divide the country with racist and demagogic appeals. Clearly Trump is scapegoating the Hispanic community. Immigrants are not responsible, Sanders stressed, for the disappearing American middle class, the Wall Street collapse brought on by huge financial institutions greed and illegal behavior, the war in Iraq, income inequality or climate change.
At the roundtable discussion, Sanders called Trumps comments mean and denigrating to an entire group of people and accused him of using Latinos as whipping boys to distract attention from real problems confronting the country. He called it absurd, racist and wrong to blame immigrants for the nations problems.
That is absolutely unacceptable, the senator added during the roundtable discussion at the Muscatine County Boxing Club. That kind of discourse should be removed from our politics.
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More (w/Video): http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/04/bernie-sanders-rips-donald-trump-calling-racist-attacks-immigrants.html
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Bernie Sanders Rips Donald Trump While Calling Out The Bigoted Billionaire’s Racism (Original Post)
WillyT
Sep 2015
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underthematrix
(5,811 posts)1. Thank you Bernie. So far you are the only one to call out TRUMP.
Now take it to the next level and call out MSM.
pacalo
(24,859 posts)2. Spot on!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)3. Kick !!!