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Bernie Sanders Rails Against Trump Admin For ‘Rounding Up’ And Deporting ‘Innocent People’
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4/16/2025
At a "Fight Oligarchy" event in Folsom on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about recent ICE deportations mandated by President Trump.
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Well brothers and sisters, it is not just oligarchy that we are fighting.
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We are fighting a president who undermines our Constitution every single day
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and threatens our freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
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We are fighting a president whose agents are rounding up innocent people
00:29
off the streets, throwing them into unmarked vans, and sending them to detention centers
00:44
here in the United States in El Salvador and elsewhere.
00:52
That is not what happens in a democracy, that's what happens in a dictatorship.
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And together we are not going to allow Donald Trump to create an authoritarian society.
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You know, the founding fathers of our country were not dummies.
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They had just fought a war against the British Empire and defeated the most powerful person
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on earth at that time, the King of England.
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And they sat around and they said, you know what, as we develop our new country,
01:40
this is in the 1790s, what they were saying is we do not want to give one person unlimited power.
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And they developed a separation of powers.
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We got an executive, a legislative branch, and a judiciary to keep check on each other.
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And every single day, you got a president who wants more and more power for himself.
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He is usurping the power of the Congress.
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He is now challenging in an unprecedented way the role of the judiciary in America.
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The Supreme Court recently ruled in a nine-to-nothing decision that a man who was illegally picked
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off the street and sent to El Salvador has got to be returned.
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A nine-to-nothing decision of the Supreme Court.
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Mr. President, obey the law.
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But it is not just Congress and the judiciary whose power he is trying to assume.
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It is the media as well.
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Apparently, he does not understand that in America we have freedom of speech.
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He has sued ABC, CBS, Meta, the Des Moines Register.
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His FCC is now investigating NPR and PBS.
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Just the other day, he said that CBS should lose its license.
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You know what they did?
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They ran a program which was critical of some of his policies.
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How terrible.
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And this is from a guy who has spent his entire political career attacking people, lying about
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people in the most vicious ways.
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So we say to Trump, if you can't take criticism, get out of politics.
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This is a democracy and criticism and freedom of speech is what it's all about.
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This is what it's all about.
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This is what it's all about.
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This is what it's all about.
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