US Senator and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called an altered video of President Donald Trump wrestling and punching the CNN logo ‘”an outrage.”
In an exclusive interview with USA Today, Sanders said he was concerned about Trump’s attempt to intimidate the news media.
“It’s an outrage,” Sanders said. “I think it basically encourages violence in this country at a time when there are a lot of unstable people walking the streets of America.”
“And I think it is a very clear goal, a clear effort on the part of Trump to intimidate not just CNN, but to intimidate the media. His goal is for them not to expose what he does.”
On Sunday, Trump posted on Twitter an altered video of himself wrestling and punching a man with a CNN logo superimposed on his face.
The 30-second video became an instant hit after it was retweeted by more than 93 thousand users in less than three hours.
The clip is an altered version of an old video,…