President Donald Trump got slammed once again for his latest attack on Bernie Sanders who is running as a presidential candidate for 2020. The spokeswoman of Sanders said Trump’s actions mean he lacks leadership, The Hill reported.
“It’s an attack that shows no leadership, no interest in actually supporting these people who are Americans and who [he] has a responsibility for as the president of the United States,” Briahna Joy Gray, a national press secretary for Sanders’s White House campaign, told Hill.TV. “And, frankly, it’s galling and shows that he has no credibility to be in that job.”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to Hill.TV’s request for comment.
The President is under fire over his recent remarks against Baltimore and slams of Rep. Elijah Cummings, but has now lashed out at Sanders, saying he should be “labeled a Racist” for previously comparing Baltimore to a “Third World country.”
“Sanders recently equated the City of Baltimore to a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY,” Trump tweeted, referring to remarks the senator made in 2015 after touring the city following riots over the death of Freddie Gray, an African American man who died while in police custody.
“Based on that statement, I assume that Bernie must now be labeled a Racist, just as a Republican would if he used that term and standard!” Trump added.
Sanders shot back, saying “Trump’s lies never end.”
“While I have been fighting to lift the people of Baltimore and elsewhere out of poverty with good paying jobs, housing and health care, he has been attacking workers and the poor,” he tweeted.
Trump had earlier described the city as “disgusting” and “rodent infested,” an assessment widely denounced as racist by Democrats, including Sanders himself.
The President denied that these remarks were racist. Trump maintained Tuesday that, despite concerns over race-baiting, he said that his attacks are not part of a larger political strategy.
“There’s no strategy. I have no strategy. There’s zero strategy,” Trump told reporters Tuesday at the White House.
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