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Bernie Sanders: “Trump claimed, has claimed over and over again that the 2020…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Published March 8, 2025 | Video Starts at 18:26

… our country, we find ourselves wasting endless amounts of time trying to refute Trump's absurdities and lies. Let me give you just. Let me give you just a few examples. Trump claimed, has claimed over and over again that the 2020 elections was stolen from him and that he won by a landslide. A lie. Trump has claimed that the January 6th. Insurrection was a day of love. A lie. Trump has claimed that millions of undocumented. People vote in American elections alive. (18:26–18:37)

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Asserts that Trump repeatedly claims the 2020 election was stolen.

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“America has been moving toward an oligarchy. Well, we're no longer moving toward that oligarchy.”
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“The oligarchs, led by Mr. Musk, the wealthiest man on Earth are on the war path against the working families of our country.”
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“The most serious addiction that we have is that we are looking at an addiction of greed on the part of the ruling class of this country.”
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“This is not an economic issue. We can talk about it from an economic perspective. This is more of a psychiatric issue.”
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“Millions of kids will be thrown off of the health care that they have.”
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“Nursing homes get two thirds of their funding from Medicaid.”
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“40% of [community health centers'] revenue comes from Medicaid.”
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“22% of seniors are trying to survive on $15,000 a year or less.”
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“50% of seniors trying to get by on $30,000 a year.”
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“Some 30,000 people die every year waiting for understaffed Social Security to approve disability benefits.”
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“Trump administration announced that they were going to lay off 83,000 employees at the Veterans Administration.”
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“Musk want to dismantle the Department of Education.”
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“They want to go after nutrition programs to the tune of $230 billion.”
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“Fire, which they are doing, hundreds of thousands of federal employees.”
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“People like Musk are working day and night trying to expand artificial intelligence and robotics.”
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“President Trump is very effective in creating what I would call a parallel universe.”
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“Before Trump took office by claiming that that legislation, which had been worked on because I was involved in it for months by Democrats…”
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“It's a 3.4% increase, not a 40% increase.”
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“This is an outrageous lie. And in my view, he does this in order to lay the groundwork for, for cuts to Social Security and in fact…”
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“Millions and millions of seniors are kept out of poverty because of Social Security.”
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“We remain the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right.”
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“We pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.”
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“One out of four Americans cannot afford the prescription drugs their doctors prescribe.”
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“60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.”
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“We have over 20 million people spending more than 50% of their limited incomes on housing.”
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“We have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had in the history of our nation.”
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“The three wealthiest people in America own more wealth than the bottom half of American society, 170 million people.”
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“Our life expectancy [in the U.S.] is four years lower.”
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“The life expectancy for the bottom 50% of Americans is seven years shorter than for the wealthy people in this country.”
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“We can create millions of good paying jobs, transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable…”
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“Speech, had not one word to say about the crisis of climate change, except drill, baby, drill.”
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“For the first time in our 250 year history, we have a president who is turning his back on democracy and aligning us with, with…”
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“Ukraine who were invaded by Putin. We must always stand up for democracy, not dictatorship.”
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“Musk spent some $270 million to help Trump get elected, and his reward is that he was made the most powerful person in the US Government.”
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“This corrupt campaign finance system.”
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“Be able to buy elections.”
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“Workers to exercise their constitutional right to form a union.”
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“Musk and Trump and these guys are in the business of cutting Social Security.”
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“The oligarchs are enormously powerful. They control the economy. They control our political system to a large degree. They have enormous…”
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“I will be introducing legislation very shortly to prevent any more funding for the Netanyahu government.”
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“We got 19 senators to support a ban on arms sales for Netanyahu.”
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