In a pungent assembly on Sunday,Sen Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) condemned President Donald Trump’s convention chastising Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy and elevated down on describing Trump’s administration as an oligarchy.
“Zelenskyy is leading a country, trying to defend democracy against an authoritarian dictator, Putin, who invaded his country. I think millions of Americans are embarrassed, are ashamed, that you have a president of the United States who says that Ukraine started the war, that Zelenskyy is a dictator. He’s got it exactly backwards,” Sanders knowledgeable NBC News’ Kristen Welker on “Meet The Press.” He likewise claimed it was a “horrific suggestion” for Republicans to ask for Zelenskyy’s resignation.
“The people of Ukraine have lost tens of thousands of soldiers. Their cities are being bombed as we speak. And our job is to defend the 250-year tradition that we have of being the democratic leader of the world, not turn our backs on a struggling country that is trying to do the right thing,” Sanders included.
On Friday, Trump, Vice President JD Vance and a member of the right-wing mediaberated Zelenskyy during his Oval Office visit wherein they resulted from talk about a mineral civil liberties supply adhering to assist that America supplied to Ukraine when Russian oppressor Vladimir Putin launched a full-fledged intrusion of the nation begin in February 2022.
(It’s price holding in thoughts that Trump baselesslycalled Zelenskyy a dictator last month However, paradoxically, Trump has persistently praised Putin and other well-knowndictators.)
Video of the convention, which didn’t trigger an association, triggered prevalent criticism of Trump and Vance’s dealing with of the state of affairs.
Echoing his earlier instances cautioning Americans of the threats of Trump’s administration, which he calls an oligarchy, Sanders on Sunday likewise took objective on the administration for specializing in the speed of pursuits of the prosperous versus Americans in its entirety.
He after that equipped steerage to Democrats, that he asserted “have been playing dead for too many years.” (Political planner James Carville recommended that Democrats “play dead” all through Trump’s administration to make Americans miss them, nevertheless Sanders had a various viewpoint.)
“I think you stand up for the working class in this country and make the point that right now the Trump administration is clearly an administration designed to represent the interest of the Musks of the world,” Sanders claimed. “Thirteen of the people that he nominated to head agencies are billionaires.”
“What we have right now in Washington, let me be very clear, is a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, and for the billionaire class. And,” he included, “their greed is uncontrollable: more tax breaks for billionaires, cuts to programs for the elderly, the children, and the poor. We’ve got to fight back.”
