US President Donald Trump is supported by “billionaire after billionaire,” says Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, questioning the New York businessman’s claims of being an outsider to the United States establishment.
The former Democratic candidate, who chose to endorse Trump’s opponent, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, appeared on CBS on Monday to comment about the new president’s inauguration ceremony.
Vermont senator said he found Trump’s speech at the ceremony “somewhat amusing.”
“Mr. Trump… President Trump was punching the establishment but right behind him, sitting in the VIP sections, were billionaire after billionaire after billionaire,” Sanders said on “Face the Nation.”
Central to Sanders’ own 2016 campaign was targeting the one percent in control of the US economy and raising minimum wages for American workers, pledges that the New York billionaire also made…