Senate

Sanders: Trump ‘backtracking on every economic promise that he made’

by Rebecca Savransky - 02/12/17 11:06 AM ET

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday said President Trump has not been following through on the economic promises he made during the campaign.

“There’s a whole lot of discussion about the racist, in my view, immigration policies of the Trump administration, which are based on anti-Muslim ideology, which are doing us enormous harm all over the world — something else is going on at the exact same moment,” Sanders said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”

“President Trump is backtracking on every economic promise that he made to the American people.”

{mosads}Sanders pointed to the president’s campaign promises that he wouldn’t cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

“So what’s going on right now, we’re talking a whole lot about immigration,” Sanders said.

“He’s appointing Wall Street bankers, the same people he told us he would oppose, to very high positions … we’re talking a whole lot about dividing the American people up. We’re supposed to hate Muslims, we’re supposed to hate Latinos.”

When asked if he thinks all of this is a “shiny metal object” to distract and divide the public, Sanders responded: “You got it.”

“Meanwhile, he was going to clean the swamp. Remember that?” Sanders asked.

“Well guess who’s running the swamp right now. The same exact Wall Street guys from Goldman Sachs who were there in the past.”

Sanders urged Americans to “stay focused.”

“Do you want billionaires and Wall Street executives to be running this economy,” he said, “or do we want economic policies that work for working families and the middle class?”

Sanders also reiterated his opinion that the president is “delusional in many respects” and a “pathological liar.”

“It is very harsh, but I think that’s the truth,” he said, citing Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 presidential race.

“I think what we need to do right now is focusing on bringing the American people together around a progressive agenda,” Sanders said.

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