"Maybe Trump should worry about those issues rather than Bill Clinton's sex life," Bernie Sanders said. | AP Photo Sanders doesn't follow Trump's lead on Bill Clinton

Bernie Sanders declined to attack Bill or Hillary Clinton on Sunday over recent comments from Donald Trump raising the issue of her husband's past sexual infidelities as a problem for her candidacy.

"No, I think we've got more important things to worry about in this country than Bill Clinton's sex life," the Democratic presidential candidate told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union," in another instance of the independent Vermont senator deflecting a potential personal line of criticism against the former secretary of state, senator and first lady.


Instead of talking about the former president's past indiscretions, Sanders asserted, Trump should reexamine his views on issues ranging from the minimum wage to climate change.

"Donald Trump might want to concern himself with the fact that he is dead wrong when he says we should not raise the minimum wage. He's dead wrong when he says that wages in America are too high," he told CNN. "He's dead wrong when he thinks we should give huge tax breaks to billionaires like himself. And he's dead wrong when he thinks that climate change is a hoax, when the entire, virtually an entire scientific community thinks it's the great environmental crisis that we face.

"Maybe Trump should worry about those issues rather than Bill Clinton's sex life," Sanders said.

During the first Democratic debate last October, Sanders brushed aside the controversy over Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state just nine days prior to her congressional testimony on the matter. "The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails," Sanders exclaimed, to which Clinton responded with a laugh, "Me too."

In a separate interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz on "This Week," Sanders again remarked that the American people "have more things to worry about than Bill Clinton’s sexual life." He also stood by past remarks in which he called Republican presidential candidate Trump a "pathological liar."

“I do not get engaged in personal attacks, but Trump is over the edge," he said. "The guy just comes up with things off the top of his head that are lies and someone has to say that."