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Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam speaks during a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2013 in Las Vegas. | AP Photo Verizon CEO rips Sanders' 'contemptible' views

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam on Wednesday became the latest corporate executive to tear into Bernie Sanders for calling out companies that are "destroying the moral fabric" of the United States, blasting the Vermont senator for his myriad claims.

Sanders has often taken on companies like Verizon during the course of the campaign, remarking in an interview with the New York Daily News editorial board earlier this month that corporations seeking to move out of the U.S. to make "even more money" are "destroying the moral fabric of this country." The senator pointed to General Electric as a "good example" in that interview, prompting GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to pen an op-ed in The Washington Post in which he ripped into Sanders for failing to acknowledge the company's operations in his own state of Vermont.

"I read with interest Jeff Immelt’s spirited response to Sen. Bernie Sanders putting GE on his hit-list of big corporations that are 'destroying the moral fabric' of America," McAdam wrote in a LinkedIn post entitled "Feeling The Bern of Reality -- The Facts About Verizon and The 'Moral Economy." "In fact, I share his frustration. Verizon is in Sanders’s bull’s-eye, as well. The senator’s uninformed views are, in a word, contemptible."

McAdam, like Immelt, pushed back at Sanders' claim that Verizon does not pay its fair share of taxes, pointing to financial statements that show the company has paid $15.6 billion in the last two years alone, with a 35 percent rate in 2015. He also took issue with Sanders' assertion that Verizon has not invested enough in the U.S.

At a campaign stop last Thursday with members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Sanders called Verizon's plan to "take American jobs – call center jobs – out of this country and bring them abroad" where people will be paid considerably less "unacceptable." On Wednesday, Sanders took to the picket line with workers in New York City as more than 40,000 Verizon workers representing both unions walked off the job earlier in the morning.

"Again, Sen. Sanders is wrong on the facts," McAdam wrote. "More egregiously, he oversimplifies the complex forces operating in today’s technologically advanced and hyper-competitive economy."

Referring to Sanders' invocation of a "moral economy," McAdam wrote that the senator "seems to think that can only happen by ignoring the transformational forces reshaping the communications industry."

"But nostalgia for the rotary phone era won’t save American jobs, any more than ignoring the global forces reshaping the auto industry saved the Detroit auto makers," he continued.

While conceding that rhetoric in presidential campaigns can get heated and that big corporations are an enticing target, McAdam wrote, "But when rhetoric becomes disconnected from reality, we’ve crossed a dangerous line."

"We deserve better from people aspiring to be President," he concluded. "At the very least, we should demand that candidates base their arguments on the facts … even when they don’t fit their campaign narratives."

Sanders fired back at the post in a tweet later Wednesday: "I don’t want the support of McAdam, Immelt and their friends in the billionaire class. I welcome their contempt."