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In Atlanta, Bernie Sanders says Trump lies all the time
In Atlanta, Bernie Sanders says Trump “lies all the time”
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-bernie-sanders-says-trump-lies-all-the-time/Mbl5JjL9PFRTe1GR7BAalI/
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Monday that dealing with President Donald Trump is very difficult because he “lies all the time.”
Meanwhile, former President Jimmy Carter seemed to suggest that he’d voted for Sanders in the Democratic primary here.
“People often ask me, ‘What do you think about what the president said yesterday,’” Sanders, 75, said bluntly during a joint appearance with Carter. “It’s hard to answer because his view will be different tomorrow. and very often, factually what he says is just not correct.
Sanders and Carter’s “conversation” came at the end of Day One of the Carter Center’s annual Human Rights Defenders Forum. The audience, which included activists, peacemakers, and community leaders from 31 countries, frequently broke into applause, particularly when Sanders launched into one of his signature pull-no-punches commentaries on the impact corporate money has on American politics. Even Carter seemed to get caught up in it. After Sanders suggested that higher voter turnout was the key to defeating the Republican party, Carter quipped to the audience, “Can you all see why I voted for him?!”
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Anyone who follows Bernie on social media knows he hasn't stopped attacking Trump, he's like a pit bull.
And Carter's a Bernista?
Meanwhile, Carter had pulled no punches earlier in the day about why Sanders had been invited to address the two-day forum which is focused on strategies for protecting human rights in the wake of rising authoritarianism.
“I think during the last election in America, Bernie Sanders represented the best of all the candidates what this conference is about,” Carter told the AJC in an interview about an hour before their joint appearance at the end of a forum dinner. “When you lose your opportunity to have some reasonable chance of a decent income, you lose a lot of other things as well. One of the key things people feel is that they’ve lost a voice in their own government.”
As for the invitation that brought Sanders here, Carter chuckled, “I don’t know that he hesitated.”
Indeed, if the 40-minute conversation was in keeping with the forum’s focus, it also represented an irresistible bonus of sorts, bringing together the old progressive standard bearer of the Democratic party in Carter and the current one in Sanders.
“I think during the last election in America, Bernie Sanders represented the best of all the candidates what this conference is about,” Carter told the AJC in an interview about an hour before their joint appearance at the end of a forum dinner. “When you lose your opportunity to have some reasonable chance of a decent income, you lose a lot of other things as well. One of the key things people feel is that they’ve lost a voice in their own government.”
As for the invitation that brought Sanders here, Carter chuckled, “I don’t know that he hesitated.”
Indeed, if the 40-minute conversation was in keeping with the forum’s focus, it also represented an irresistible bonus of sorts, bringing together the old progressive standard bearer of the Democratic party in Carter and the current one in Sanders.
Thank you President Carter!
Go Bernie!
That is going to frost some people's asses. 
That can't be. DU keeps telling me that he spends all his time criticizing Democrats. 
I think I might have heard that before. Keep beating the drum!!!!
