Sen. Bernie Sanders (Getty Images/Saul Loeb)

America has “a corrupt political system” run by drug, fossil fuel and insurance companies – and the National Rifle Association (NRA) – Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) claimed during the Democrat presidential candidate debate Thursday.

Asked if he supported ending the filibuster, Sen. Sanders said he didn’t, because there are “a variety” of other ways to quickly effect his agenda, which he promised to do in order to fix the current “corrupt political system.”

Sanders, then, accused President Donald Trump and Republican leadership in Congress of being “intimidated” by the NRA – and promised that, as president, he would not be intimidated: