Posted on 02/02/2020 7:09:26 PM PST by karpov
President Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he thinks Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is a communist.
Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump in an interview that aired prior to Super Bowl LIV for quick reactions to a number of Democratic presidential candidates, including Sanders.
"I think he’s a communist. I mean, you know, look, I think of communism when I think of Bernie," Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
"Now, you could say socialist, but didn’t he get married in Moscow?" Trump added, with Hannity interjecting to note Sanders went to the former Soviet Union on his honeymoon.
"I think of Bernie sort of as a socialist but far beyond a socialist," Trump continued. "At least he’s true to what he believes."
Trump's comments were broadcast a day before the Iowa caucuses. Sanders, who identifies as a democratic socialist, has been leading in the most recent polls in the state.
The president and his campaign last month started focusing additional attention on Sanders, who has consistently been among the best-performing candidates in polls alongside former Vice President Joe Biden.
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The veil has been lifted and it aint pretty.
Come on now cant you see the President is trolling the media with this statement?This si awesome
He’s Bernobyl to the lying Democrats.
Breadline Bernie IS a communist! As is LIE-a-watha Warren, The Squad, and most of today’s democRATs.
Trump is a gift from God. God is all knowing and put Trump where he is to identify the tyrannical and save our nation. Bush, Reagan, No other president would have made such bold statements and actually call them as he sees them and who they truly are.
Let’s see ... he’s proposing the federal takeover of health care and energy production; imposing wage, price and production controls on a free market economy and destroying the banking system; all the while, mandating crippling confiscatory taxation and redistributive entitlement policies.
Other than announcing gulags, execution squads and perhaps a convenient famine or two, is there anything that he’s left out of the communism playbook? For him to even be legitimized as a presidential candidate is a scathing indictment of our unionized socialist public education system.
Ya think?
What is the difference between socialism and communism? Communism has all the guns.
"Wouldn't be prudent …"
Bernie will only claim to be a Democratic Socialist until he gets elected and succeeds in destroying the Constitution. Then he will drop the pretense and be a full bore Commie for all to see.
He is just following the Pedophile model of voter recruitment . . . give the kid candy until you can convince them to get in the car with you. Then you can do as you please with them. . . pure evil.
“It is unfortunately necessary to persuade voters that Sanders is a commie and that that’s a bad thing.”
Too soon Karpov. We want the commie to win. Take the nomination and unleash the full civil war of Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks in the DNC.
President Trump erred here with this premature fusillade IMHO.
Almost. Nazi Germany was socialist.
And they started killing, didn't they?
Considering Nixon was a key player in the McCarthy hearings as well as one of the guys who nailed Alger Hiss as a Communist, I’m pretty sure that Nixon probably would have come right out and said it as well. Heck, he also called out that Helen Douglas lady as being “pink right down to her undergarments” in reference to her Soviet-sympathizing politics.
Can’t comment on Ford or Ike, though, or even Bush.
I don’t think many people born after the fall of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc nations even know what communism is.
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