Bernie Sanders: President Trump is a 'racist'
Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted President Trump as a "racist" during an event commentating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in South Carolina.
The possible presidential candidate candidate pivoted from a discussion about the holiday to his feelings on Trump.
"Today we talked about justice and today we talked about racism. And I must tell you it gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a President of the United States who is a racist," Sanders said.
"We have a president intentionally, purposefully trying to divide us up by the color of our skin, by our gender, by the country we came from, by our religion."
Sanders went on to argue that it's "remarkable" that America is still fighting for equality more than 50 years after Civil Rights movement, and framed Trump's presidency as a step in the wrong direction.
"We say to President Trump today: this country has suffered too long from discrimination. We are not going backwards, we are going forwards to a non-discriminatory society," he said.
Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel criticized Sanders in a response over Twitter.
"Absolutely disgusting and wrong. [Trump] has brought African American and Hispanic unemployment to record lows, passed historic criminal justice reform. Even worse that Bernie is using MLK Day to make an incendiary comment like that," she said.
