Bernie Sanders in Trump impeachment


On Principles & Values: Trump a corrupt president, worthy of impeachment

Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of this country. It's not just that he obstructed justice. I think that the House will find him worthy of impeachment because of the emoluments clause. This is a president who is enriching himself while using the Oval Office. The idea that we have a President who is prepared to hold back national security money to one of our allies in order to get dirt on a presidential candidate is beyond comprehension.
Source: October Democratic Primary debate on impeaching Trump Oct 15, 2019

On Principles & Values: Trump think he is above the law, but nobody is

Q: Chants of "Lock Her Up" are still heard at President Trump's rallies today [referring to Hillary Clinton in 2016]. Now some opponents of the president are turning the same slogan against him. They've chanted "Lock Him Up" at two of your campaign events recently. Should Democrats discourage this? Or are you OK with it?

SANDERS: Well, I think the people of this country are catching on to the degree that this president thinks he is above the law. And what the American people are saying: Nobody is above the law. And I think what the American people are also saying is, in fact, that if this president did break the law, he should be prosecuted like any other individual who breaks the law. But at the end of the day, what we need to do is to bring our people together not just in opposition to Trump. The initial question that somebody raised here was that we are a divided nation. You know what? I kind of reject that.

Source: November Democratic primary debate, on impeaching Trump Nov 20, 2019

On Principles & Values: Trump has documentedly lied thousands of times as President

Q: Why do you think more people are not in support of impeachment & what else can you do?

Sanders: We have a president who is a pathological liar. We have a president who is running the most corrupt administration in the modern history of this country. And we have a president who is a fraud, because during his campaign he told working people one thing, and he ended up doing something else. I believe, and I will personally be doing this in the coming weeks and months, is making the case that we have a president who has sold out the working families of this country, who wants to cut social security, Medicare, and Medicaid, after he promised he would not do that, and who has documentedly lied thousands of times since he is president. And the case to be made is, yeah, certainly, I disagree with Trump on virtually all of his policies, but what conservatives, I think, understand, is that we cannot have a president with that temperament, who is dishonoring the presidency of the United States.

Source: December Democratic primary debate on impeaching Trump Dec 19, 2019

On Welfare & Poverty: Deal with 500,000 people sleeping on streets, AND Trump

Q: Americans are watching these impeachment hearings. At the same time, they're also focused on their more immediate, daily economic and family concerns.

SANDERS: Sadly, we have a president who is not only a pathological liar, he is likely the most corrupt president in the modern history of America. But we cannot simply be consumed by Donald Trump, because if we are, we're going to lose the election. Right now, you've got 87 million people who have no health insurance or are underinsured. You've got 500,000 people sleeping out on the street and you've got 18 million people paying half of their limited incomes for housing. What the American people understand is that the Congress can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. In other words, we can deal with Trump's corruption, but we also have to stand up for the working families of this country. We also have to stand up to the fact that our political system is corrupt, dominated by a handful of billionaires, and that our economy is rigged.

Source: November Democratic primary debate, on impeaching Trump Nov 20, 2019

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