Sen. Bernie Sanders didn’t mince words on Tuesday when asked about the FBI’s investigation into his wife — calling it a “pathetic” and politically motivated attack, spurred by President Trump.

“All that I will tell you now is it’s a sad state of affairs in America when not only we have politicians being destroyed … but when you go after people’s wives. That’s pretty pathetic,” he said.

Sanders’ wife, Jane, is in the midst of a federal probe involving a $10 million loan that led to the bankruptcy of now-defunct Burlington College, of which she was the president.

She reportedly brokered the deal herself — and promised that the school had raised enough money to pay off the debt.

Jane claimed to have $5 million in likely pledges and $2.4 million in confirmed fundraising in her requests to the bank at the time, but it’s unclear if she was telling the truth.

“When she came to that college, it was failing financially and academically. When she left it, it was in better shape,” Sanders explained. “Five years later, just at the moment — coincidentally, no doubt — when I am a candidate for president of the United States, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, vice chairman of the Republican Party in Vermont, launched this investigation.”

The FBI’s investigation ultimately stems from a January 2016 complaint claiming Jane Sanders falsified the $10 million loan application.

Despite her husband’s claims, it reportedly was launched more than a year ago by the Obama administration.

“I think it’s pathetic that when people are involved in public life, it’s not only they get attacked, but it is their wives and their families that get attacked,” Sanders concluded. “That’s what this is about.”