Final up to date on December 18th, 2024 at 02:23 pm
Meet The Press’s Kristen Welker requested Sen. Bernie Sanders about Biden pardoning his son, and Sanders responded by taking Welker to highschool.
Transcript through Meet The Press:
KRISTEN WELKER:
Senator, was it the fitting choice for the nation to pardon Hunter Biden?
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS:
Properly, I feel two issues. When you’ve gotten his opponents going after his household, as a father, as a guardian, I feel we will all perceive Biden attempting to guard his son and his household. Alternatively, I feel the precedent being set is form of a harmful one. It’s a really wide-open pardon which might below totally different circumstances result in issues when it comes to future presidents.
KRISTEN WELKER:
Do you assume he might his legacy with this pardon, Senator?
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS:
Properly, I feel his legacy is a powerful legacy. I feel President Biden on home insurance policies has been maybe probably the most progressive president in American historical past since FDR. And I feel the financial system immediately in some ways is in very sturdy form. However I do imagine as President Trump comes into workplace, we now have acquired to grasp, Kristen â and that is one thing I really feel very strongly about. And it’s not talked about sufficient. We’re shifting quickly into an oligarchic type of society. By no means earlier than in American historical past have so few billionaires, so few folks, had a lot wealth and a lot energy. By no means earlier than has there been a lot focus of possession, sector after sector, energy of Wall Avenue. And by no means earlier than in American historical past â and we higher discuss this â have the folks on high had a lot political energy. We will’t go around the globe saying, “Oh, nicely, you already know, in Russia, Putin has an oligarchy.” Properly, we acquired our oligarchy right here, too. And on this final election, in each events, billionaires spent large quantities of cash to elect their candidates. Now right here within the state of Vermont, we imagine, we now have city conferences, one particular person, one vote. That’s democracy, not billionaires shopping for elections. These are the problems we acquired to give attention to. We acquired to rebuild the center class. Sixty p.c of our folks residing paycheck to paycheck. We’re the one main nation on Earth to not assure well being care to all folks. Many seniors are struggling, excessive charges of childhood poverty. So, I sit up for working with President Trump when he has concepts which are going to assist the working class. We’ll vigorously oppose him if he needs to assault democracy or ladies’s rights to regulate their very own our bodies.
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Sen. Sanders (I-VT) was on the cash. Joe Biden might simply go down in historical past as probably the most progressive American president since FDR. Biden’s presidency will studied for many years to come back for its transformative effectiveness. Trump’s presidency can even be studied for its corruption and criminality and certain for the injury it’ll have carried out to American democracy.
Welker’s query was past myopic. Trump has stuffed his cupboard with billionaires and is on observe for the best oligarchic upward redistribution of energy and wealth on this nation in historical past.
The pardon of Hunter Biden is irrelevant when billionaires simply purchased the presidency and at the moment are poised to take over the Government Department of the federal authorities.
Billionaires shopping for elections could be the most urgent risk to the nation right now, and Bernie Sanders was proper to take Kristen Welker to highschool.
Awards and Skilled Memberships
Member of the Society of Skilled Journalists and The American Political Science Affiliation
