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Bernie Sanders Spent $221K on Private Jets Amid 'Fighting Oligarchy' Tour
Washington Free Beacon. ^ | April 17, 2025 | Thomas Catenacci

Posted on 04/18/2025 3:44:47 PM PDT by george76

Vermont socialist has spent millions on private jet travel over the years..

Sen. Bernie Sanders has crisscrossed the country on his nationwide Fighting Oligarchy Tour to rail against billionaires and supposed "oligarchs" like Elon Musk—while traveling like an oligarch himself.

Campaign expenditures released Tuesday and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show Sanders's main campaign committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders, spent $221,723 chartering private jets during the first quarter of 2025, with the first payment coming just days before the launch of his tour in February.

"We will not accept a rigged economy where working people struggle while billionaires become richer," Sanders said during the tour's latest event in California on Tuesday. "We have got to create an economy that works for working people, not just Mr. Musk and the billionaire class." But Sanders has had no issue splurging on private jets far beyond the means of working people, even as he has ramped up his attacks on the rich.

The revelation is just the latest contrast between his socialist rhetoric and his millionaire lifestyle. The Vermont senator used to rail against "millionaires and billionaires" in his speeches denouncing oligarchy—until he became a millionaire himself shortly before his 2020 presidential campaign, at which point he trained his fire on "billionaires." During that campaign, fellow candidate Michael Bloomberg mocked Sanders for amassing wealth while preaching socialism for the masses. "The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses," Bloomberg said in a 2020 debate.

Overall, Friends of Bernie Sanders, which manages the Fighting Oligarchy Tour, contracted three firms that charter jets: Cirrus Aviation Services, N-Jet, and Ventura Jets, according to the filings. Payments to those three firms accounted for nearly 75 percent of the campaign's total transportation costs during that period. Sanders has spent millions of dollars in campaign funds on private jet travel over the years.

The campaign spent another $63,830 on commercial airline tickets. It also spent nearly $41,000 on lodging and $248,245 on event production.

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anders launched his tour on Feb. 22 in Nebraska and has since held a dozen events in Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and California. The latest event took place Wednesday in Montana.

The Vermont senator has been joined by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), who usually introduces him at the events. Ocasio-Cortez, for her part, was spotted flying first-class to one of the rallies in Las Vegas last month.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Idaho; US: Vermont
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1 posted on 04/18/2025 3:44:47 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

You have to spend money to make money.


2 posted on 04/18/2025 3:46:43 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: george76

Bernie and AOC are all they’ve got right now.


3 posted on 04/18/2025 3:49:00 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: ansel12

“Mo’money, mo’money, mo’money!”


4 posted on 04/18/2025 3:49:21 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher )
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To: george76

That’s “walking around money” for that socialist.


5 posted on 04/18/2025 3:49:43 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: george76

Idiots


6 posted on 04/18/2025 3:50:30 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: george76

They should be taking greyhound busses.


7 posted on 04/18/2025 3:50:43 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: george76

It’s the Battle of the Millionaires against the Billionaires.

Trump won that one and gave his opponent “some knuckles.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fF4qENGIL4

https://www.google.com/search?q=images+WWE+Battle+of+the+Billionaires&sca_esv=7f8b8e46ed786b81&udm=2&biw=1052&bih=479&ei=ktcCaICxDtSIptQPwZfiwQo&ved=0ahUKEwiAwuzu1eKMAxVU


8 posted on 04/18/2025 3:57:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Old Yeller

A socialist oligarch that is


9 posted on 04/18/2025 4:01:48 PM PDT by xp38
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To: george76

YOU have to sacrifice.


10 posted on 04/18/2025 4:04:27 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: george76

So who’s the oligarch?


11 posted on 04/18/2025 4:05:38 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: george76

HE HAS 3 LARGE PROPERTIES-—NONE OF THEM IN THE SLUMS...


12 posted on 04/18/2025 4:06:38 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ComputerGuy
Meet your Democrat 2028 Dream Ticket...


13 posted on 04/18/2025 4:07:00 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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Since they want to help the working class and punish the oligarchs I assume Bernie and AOC support Trump’s immigration reforms (or maybe even want to go further!).


14 posted on 04/18/2025 4:13:45 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: george76
DontAlwaysManColSanders
15 posted on 04/18/2025 4:19:29 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (The Houthis get all the Press while the Blowfish go forgotten.)
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To: george76

Allahgawkee.


16 posted on 04/18/2025 4:23:05 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: george76

Whose money did he spend?


17 posted on 04/18/2025 4:24:30 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: george76

You don’t expect the Vanguard of the Party to fly coach, do you?


18 posted on 04/18/2025 4:25:51 PM PDT by Orosius (A“Wake America Up Again )
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To: Orosius

It is duty of the Vanguard of the Proletariat to loot the Proletariat.

I am sure Karl Marx wrote that somewhere....

Lol.


19 posted on 04/18/2025 4:28:24 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: george76

Do as I say not as I do, dim mission statement


20 posted on 04/18/2025 4:29:48 PM PDT by blitz128
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