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Bernie Sanders Blames Trump for Nazis, Bears No Responsibility for Shooting by His Follower

posted onAugust 15, 2017
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Article snippet: Posted at 9:00 pm on August 14, 2017 by Brad Slager In his zeal to drape the noose of Nazi violence on President Trump Bernie Sanders has a convenient blind spot in his outrage. Since the calamitous protest at the University of Virginia on Saturday it has been an avalanche of leftist outrage, hand-wringing, moral pontificating, and accusatory idiocy. Sure Donald Trump could not find the way to extricate himself from blame, but it is with tiresome audacity that the very crowd that bemoans anyone politicizing a negative occurrence on the Left cannot stop themselves from profiting politically today. Bernie Sanders joined in the fray, not wanting to miss an opportunity to score  positive media. In a streetside interview he was queried about Saturday’s events, and he sternly laid the blame at the feet of President Trump. Uh, sort of. Sanders sent out a tweet with a brief video clip of himself holding court.  However his initial tweet bore these words: . Sanders amended this sentiment; he deleted that tweet and issued a new one, with a different message as the header, with the same video clip attached: Now should this missive also become memory-holed here is the transcript of that video clip: Quixotically the very words that Bernie deleted are right there in the video, captioned for our viewing pleasure.     It is with utter obliviousness that Bernie Sanders would even dare enter these waters. In June we all recall that Steve Scalise, and a number of other par... Link to the full article to read more

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