SANDERS: “I will tell you that I was absolutely outraged by his behavior in Helsinki, where he really sold the American people out. And it makes me think that either Trump doesn’t understand what Russia has done, not only to our elections, but through cyber attacks against all parts of our infrastructure, either he doesn’t understand it, or perhaps he is being blackmailed by Russia, because they may have compromising information about him.
“Or perhaps also you have a president who really does have strong authoritarian tendencies. And maybe he admires the kind of government that Putin is running in Russia. And I think all of that is a disgrace and a disservice to the American people. And we have got to make sure that Russia does not interfere, not only in our elections, but in other aspects of our lives.”
There is no contradiction between the influx of military-intelligence candidates into the Democratic Party and the Democrats’ making use of the services of Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez to give the party a “left” cover.
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“No candidate, whether Secretary Clinton or anyone else, should have to wage an electoral contest in the face of foreign government intervention,” Sanders said in a statement.
“As someone who campaigned hard for Secretary Clinton from one end of this country to another, it is an outrage that she had to run against not only Donald Trump but also the Russian government. All Americans rightly expected and deserved a fair election free of foreign government intervention,” he added.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday condemned Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that targeted Hillary Clinton, hours after suggesting her campaign could have done more to ma…
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Sanders Introduces Resolution to Protect American Democracy from Russian Meddling
Thursday, July 19, 2018
WASHINGTON, July 19 — Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution Thursday to force members of the Senate to go on the record in accepting the assessment of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and the looming threat of Russian interference in this year's midterm elections.
The resolution also calls for the Senate to commit to safeguard the U.S. election system, protect the ongoing investigation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and demand that President Donald Trump cooperate with the investigation.
Sanders will speak on the floor regarding the resolution at 11:20 a.m. today.
"If President Trump won't confront Putin about interference in our elections and his destabilizing policies, Congress must act. Tweets and speeches are fine, but we need more from Republican senators now," Sanders said. “If their leadership won’t allow votes on this extraordinarily important matter, then my Republican colleagues must join with Democrats to make it happen or all of their words are worthless.”
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
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It is interesting he doesn't actually acknowledge in those that he himself was supported by the Russians.
Also even though he acknowledged the attack on our minority communities:
None of his 'resolutions' actually address the problem that is the attack on the citizens, only the election systems:
Which is exactly what the line Trump and the Republicans drew.
But I am happy that he has not been silent on the issue, even if it is not nearly dealing with the problem.
So do you now accept that the Russians have been attacking our minority communities, and that it is very important that we all understand this and combat it?
