WATCH: Bernie Sanders Slams Trump’s New Birther Revelation: ‘This Is Pathetic’
‘It’s About Bigotry’
Senator Bernie Sanders Friday morning slammed a statement from Donald Trump’s campaign, which finally admits President Barack Obama was born in the Untied States.Â
“Well isn’t that something. My word!,” Sanders said sarcastically. “After eight years of having President Obama as president, Donald Trump now thinks he’s a legitimate president. Well I’m just overwhelmed with emotion,” the former Democratic presidential candidate told CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
Bernie Sanders blasts Donald Trump’s birther statement: “This is pathetic” https://t.co/TdMmBkMhG4 pic.twitter.com/Qfsh4AG81d
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 16, 2016
“Look, this is pathetic. And this goes to the root of what Trump’s campaign is about,” Sanders summed up. “Let’s be clear – it’s about bigotry. You remember, let’s all remember, that a few years ago, Donald Trump was the leader of the so-called ‘birther’ movement. And what the birther movement was about was not being critical of Obama. This is democracy, we can criticize Obama. It was delegitimizing the first African-American president.”
“It is not acceptable for a candidate for president of the United States to be arguing whether or not our President was born in this country.”
Bernie Sanders on the birther controversy: Donald Trump is trying to appeal to those “extreme extremists” https://t.co/ANtTxAJjbf
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 16, 2016
“I think this is part of his entire campaign of bigotry” Sanders added, saying Trump is “trying to appeal to those extreme, extreme, extreme extremes, who still believe that Obama was not born in America.”Â
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And he made an appeal to his former supporters.
“Please, anybody who supports me – do not think that Donald Trump in any way, shape or form reflects the point of view that I have,” Sanders said, CNN reports, encouraging supporters to “worry about” their own lives, and “which candidate issue after issue after issue is better. And I think the answer is by far Hillary Clinton.”
“Either Hillary Clinton is going to become president or Donald Trump is going to become president. And I’m going to work as hard as I can to prevent Trump from becoming president,” he said.
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