Posted on 05/08/2025 2:07:13 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Bernie Sanders offered a bizarre defense for using private jets while traveling the country to speak on his 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour, during which he slammed billionaires.
The democratic socialist and environmental campaigner said he should not be expected to 'wait in line' for commercial flights.
Sanders, 83, a longtime Vermont senator and two-time presidential candidate, said he made 'no apologies' for the trips.
He told Fox News that 'you run a campaign, and you do three or four or five rallies in a week, the only way you can go around to talk to 30,000 people,' is by private jet.
'You think I’m going to be sitting on a waiting line at United while, what, 30,000 people are waiting around?' Sanders said. 'It’s the only way you can get around. No apologies for that.'
Last month, Sanders was spotted along with fellow progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez jet setting from stop to stop aboard a cushy Bombardier Challenger jet that reportedly costs $15,000 per hour to operate.
The jet itself comes with a price tag ranging from $5 million to $7 million. During his 2020 presidential campaign, Sanders splashed out nearly $2 million on private flights.
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He just wanted to get back to his dacha.
Hypocrisy is not extraordinary nor is it a viable defense.
Bernie is the ultimate parasite, he’s found himself the mega grift.
“I knew some Russians who escaped from the Soviet Union. The hallmark of communism is waiting in lines. You stand in line to buy bread. Then you stand in line to buy milk. Imagine a line for every item you need. That is communism.
When they arrived in Italy, they went to a huge store. They were astonished. They snuck back after midnight expecting all the groceries to be gone. Nope, still there. Amazing.
But, of course, the important communists, those who were more equal than others, they didn’t stand in lines.”
Several years ago, I met a gentleman who also escaped the Soviet Union, he told me exactly the same thing.
Looks like donors are paying for it. The blurb I saw on X said “Friends of Bernie Sanders” pay for his gallivanting about.
Looks like donors are paying for it. The blurb I saw on X said “Friends of Bernie Sanders” pay for his gallivanting about.
Bernie is important .
The Kulaks need to be eliminated so Bernie can’t be made to wait
Climate concerns fly out the window the moment one’s convenience is compromised? Do I have that correct, Bernie?
These people want to deindustrialize and socialize the entire Western society in the name of of their false climate god. They give no thoughts to the inconvenience this will impose on humanity.
Bernie has never worked an honest day in his life. He has been a grifter longer than I’ve been alive. In a just world, he would be scraping from dog food cans.
John Kerry and Bernie Sanders are making money out of the "Climate Change" hoax.
Bernie has 3 homes, a Porsche, and millions of dollars looted from him campaign funds.
But Trump has a private jet of his own.
This old piece of garbage has never worked an honest job in his whole wretched life. As f0r Cortez, I would bet that as a bartender, she was only so-so.
And Trump isn't trying to "eat the rich". Just the deepstate.
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