Posted on 02/22/2020 11:18:57 AM PST by Olog-hai
Despite being a self-described socialist and a scourge of the elite classes, Bernie Sanders is in fact a millionaire with a property portfolio that includes three homes, which are pictured in exclusive DailyMail.com photos.
The 78-year-old Vermont senator’s property portfolio was mocked by presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg during Wednesday night’s debate, as he remarked: “The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did I miss?”
“You missed that I work in Washington; house one,” responded Sanders. “I live in Burlington; house two. And like thousands of other Vermonters, I do have a summer camp. Forgive me for that. Where is your home; which tax haven do you live in?”
Sanders, who has taken the lead in the recent national polls in the race, has had to defend his health, his ability to beat President Trump in November and now his estimated net worth of $2.5 million. […]
He owns a main residence in Burlington, Vermont, a one bedroom pied-à-terre in Washington, D.C. that’s just a half-mile walk from the Capitol Building and he most recently plopped down $575,000 in cash for a lakefront cabin complete with a guest cottage in North Hero Island, Vermont in the summer of 2016. […]
Although the 99-year-old wooden camp house on an island in the middle of Lake Champlain is nondescript compared to many of its neighbors, it’s the way Sanders and his second wife Jane bought the home that has ignited controversy. They scooped up the property soon after Burlington College — where Jane was a former president — was forced to close due to debts. …
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His wife Jane, gets 15% of what Bernie spends for his ADS!!!THAT COMES TO MILLIONS!
Whatever he’s revealed of it is certainly enough to garner legitimate criticism based on his professed ideology. That’s what I was pointing out.
Thanks.
I must have had an attack of the “vapors”!
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