Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: So I was curious at Sanders' 2016 retrun [View all]pnwmom
(108,955 posts)when Bernie owns three homes that together are worth at least $1.5 million, and has another million in assets beyond that?
The reason people are curious about Bernie's finances is because he has attacked other Democrats for being millionaires, and therefore in his view corrupt, when he himself is . . . a millionaire.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2019/04/12/how-bernie-sanders-the-socialist-senator-amassed-a-25-million-fortune/#2c6b665336bf
Sanders, 77, has, in fact, amassed an estimated $2.5 million fortune from real estate, investments, government pensionsand earnings from three books, including the 2016 hit Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In. I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too, he recently told the New York Times, striking a downright Trumpian note.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden