US Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says President Donald Trump’s statements and actions indicate that he is “delusional” and a “total hypocrite” and is moving the US into a more authoritarian mode.
Sanders, who lost to Hillary Clinton last year in the Democratic primary presidential election, made the remarks during an interview with CNN that aired Saturday.
“I use the term ‘delusional’ with regard to Trump when he said there were 3 to 5 million ‘illegals’ who voted in the last election … That is delusional,” Sanders said. “Nobody in the world believes that is the case. There is zero evidence to back it up. But he makes that statement. So I think the word ‘delusional’ is correct.”
Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, said Trump did not grasp the Constitution, which he swore to uphold when he reached the highest office in the nation.
“Clearly, we have a President who does not understand what our Constitution about,…