'Trump lies all the time': Bernie Sanders indicts president's assault on democracy

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/10/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-lies-democracy
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Bernie Sanders has launched a withering attack on Donald Trump, accusing him of being a pathological liar who is driving America towards authoritarianism.

In an interview with the Guardian, the independent senator from Vermont, who waged a spirited campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, gave a bleak appraisal of the new White House and its intentions.

He warned that Trump’s most contentious outbursts against the media, judiciary and other pillars of American public life amounted to a conscious assault on democracy.

“Trump lies all of the time and I think that is not an accident, there is a reason for that. He lies in order to undermine the foundations of American democracy.”
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Thank you Bernie

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1. Sorry Bernie - torture is not part of mainstream American Political Values

“George Bush was a very conservative president, I opposed him every single day. But George Bush did not operate outside of mainstream American political values.”

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4. It is easy to find one thing where a politician fall short if one looks for it. nt

While Bush was a knucklehead on a number of critical issues like torture, war, tax cuts for the rich, and debt, he largely conformed to decorum and political norms. Trump is attempting to act like a dictator, I think that is what Sanders is pointing toward, we as a country have no political norms that involve dictatorship.

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5. Illegally invading and occupying Iraq has nothing to do with American values

Sorry

Sadly your governments are very familiar with that - they impose it on others.

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2. Good for Bernie to call Trump a liar, because that is what Trump is. nt

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3. Agree