Jane Sanders: New York Daily News interview an ‘inquisition’

Bernie Sanders’s wife, Jane Sanders, on Wednesday commented on her husband’s highly publicized interview with the New York Daily News earlier this month, likening it to an “inquisition.”

 

“It was a conversation, and when you only see words down, it doesn’t quite give the flavor of it,” Sanders said on CNN, lamenting how the Daily News presented the interview.

 

{mosads}”It was a very odd interview,” she continued. “We commented on that afterwards, that it was more of an inquisition: Hurry, hurry, interrupt, let’s ask the questions, don’t let you even finish your answers.”

 

Sanders admitted the campaign wasn’t aware the newspaper would release a transcript of the April 1 interview, suggesting her husband was more collected in person than the verbatim quotes suggest.

 

The interview marked a brutal start for the New York leg of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign ahead of the state’s April 19 primary. It allowed Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to seize on several answers to bash Sanders on guns and portray him as unprepared on mainstay campaign issues such as income inequality.

 

The cover of the newspaper ripped Sanders on April 6, a day after he won the Wisconsin primary, and portrayed his position on firearms as antipathetic to the families of victims in the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting. 

 

The paper endorsed Clinton on Tuesday.