During Friday’s ‘Fight Oligarchy’ event in McAllen, Texas, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about President Trump's actions against universities and news organizations.
00:00Brothers and sisters, what we are dealing with is not only a massive attack on working families in order to benefit the very, very rich.
00:12And when I talk about the power of the rich, it's not only economic, I want you also to understand what a lot of people don't perceive.
00:20We have today a corrupt campaign finance system.
00:27All right. If you can believe it, I mean, it's almost hard to believe that this takes place in our country.
00:38Elon Musk himself spent two hundred and seventy million dollars to elect Donald Trump.
00:50And the reward that he got for electing Trump was to become the most powerful person in government, running all over, cutting the Social Security Administration, proposing to cut, if you can believe this, 83,000 jobs from the Veterans Administration.
01:12The American people know that when we have men and women who put their lives on the line to defend our country, you keep the promises we made to them, you don't cut back on the health care and the benefits that they receive.
01:31But what Trump is doing is not just waging an attack against the working class of this country, he is moving America very rapidly and dangerously into an authoritarian form of society.
01:56All right. We are supposed to have under our Constitution a separation of powers.
02:05You got an executive branch, you got a legislative branch, you have a judiciary and this power hungry man wants it all.
02:15He is usurping and taking away powers in the Congress, he is threatening the judiciary if a judge rules against him, threatening to impeach that judge.
02:34He is going after and suing media because some media has the courage to point out what he is doing.
02:47Now, this is a guy who every day is making vicious attacks against people he doesn't like.
02:58But when people attack him, he is very sensitive. His feelings get hurt.
03:09Very sensitive man.
03:12So he has sued ABC, he has sued Meta, he has sued the Des Moines Register because he didn't like a poll that they did.
03:26And right now he is waging a major lawsuit against 60 Minutes and CBS because he didn't like an interview they did with Kamala Harris.
03:38He is going after universities in America because he doesn't like the courses they teach.
03:49He is going after law firms because they represented clients he didn't like.
03:59And now, right now, in McAllen and other parts of this country, we are seeing what authoritarianism is about in its ugliest way.
04:10We are seeing people being stopped on the street, being picked up at their work place, thrown into vans and taken God knows where without due process.
04:25Grabbing people, throwing them into a van is what takes place in dictatorships.
04:39Maybe it takes place in Russia or North Korea, but it's not supposed to happen in America and we are going to fight back on that.
04:48A major point that I want to make is that the overwhelming majority of the American people do not support Trumpism.
05:10They do not believe that we should have a government run by billionaires.
