Bernie Sanders’ MLK message in South Carolina: Trump is a racist

Bernie Sanders’ MLK message in South Carolina: Trump is a racist

Sen. Bernie Sanders ripped President Trump as a racist Monday during a blunt Martin Luther King Jr. Day address at a NAACP rally in South Carolina.

“Today we talk about justice and today we talk about racism, and I must tell you it gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a president of the United States who is a racist,” Sanders told the crowd. “We have a president of the United States who has done something that no other president in modern history has done. What a president is supposed to do is to bring us together. And we have a president intentionally, purposely … trying to divide us up by the color of our skin, by our gender, by the country we came from, by our religion.”

Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, spoke at the 2019 King Day at the Dome, held at the South Carolina State House in Columbia. During his remarks, he recalled being in Washington for King’s 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech. And he called for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote.

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