Obama Allies Call BS on Bernie Sanders' Claim He Speaks to Barack Obama Regularly [View all]

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https://www.mediaite.com/news/obama-allies-call-bs-on-bernie-sanders-claim-he-speaks-to-barack-obama-regularly/

Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told CNN that he speaks with former President Barack Obama with some regularity, but allies who know both men say that’s not the case, according to The Atlantic‘s Edward-Isaac Dovere.

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With some hesitation, Sanders said “I’m not going to tell you that he and I are best friends, but we’re friends. And I have talked to him on and off for the last many years, was sitting down alone with him in the oval office on more than one occasion, talk to him on the telephone every now and then.”

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“Yes I do. Everybody I’m sure is tugging at his sleeve. I’ve talked to him a couple times in the last month or two, and I’m sure everybody else has,” Sanders said.

But according to Dovere’s sources, Obama and Sanders have only spoken on the phone once since a 2018 in-person meeting:

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That tweet from Dovere:

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People close to both Obama and Sanders were only able to identify one phone conversation to me that the two have had since their spring 2018 one on one meeting at Obama’s office