By PoliZette Staff | April 9, 2019
In the world of Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), all people have to do is write a bestselling book — and just like him, they, too, can become millionaires practically overnight.
What?
Anyone find it odd that this 2020 Democratic candidate hasn’t credited capitalism — at least publicly — for all that extra money in his pocket?
Sanders said in a recent interview with The New York Times that lucrative book sales are what made him a millionaire — and that he will release his tax returns next Monday.
“On the day in the very immediate future, certainly before April 15, we release ours, I hope that Donald Trump will do exactly the same,” Sanders said to The Times.
“We are going to release 10 years of our tax returns, and we hope that on that day Donald Trump will do the same,” he also said.
Sanders also referenced his November 2018 best-seller, “Where We Go From Here: Two Years in the Resistance” as the reason for his comfortable financial status.
“I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too,” he quipped to The Times.
Turns out basic capitalism allowed @BernieSanders to become a millionaire.
Sanders turned his brand, his popularity, into a best-selling book.https://t.co/YKypUu9l17
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 9, 2019
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NEW: Bernie Sanders says he will release 10 years of his tax returns by Monday. He's now a millionaire. “I wrote a best-selling book,” he told me. “If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.”https://t.co/yI0NE1R9gW
— Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) April 9, 2019
Sanders’ 2017 Senate financial disclosure forms indicate that he raked in some $1.06 million that year, as that outlet reported.
The lawmaker also owns three homes; he bought one of them in 2016 for $575,000.
The four-bedroom property in North Hero, Vermont, includes 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront, according to the publication Seven Days.
Sanders’ two other homes are in Burlington, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.
This is the same candidate who says all convicted felons currently behind bars should be able to vote as they can in two states currently — including his. He also believes in exploring reparations for African-Americans whose ancestors were slaves.
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Well if that’s true let’s see his taxes and see where his wealth really came from
so, is old bernie gonna distribute his wealth or is he just wanting joe average to give up thers. how about all the socialists spreading their own cash around first, the the people just might follow. but don’t hold whatever breath you have left bernie boy. it might be your last.
A great President, Harry Truman, said, “you can’t get rich being a politician, it’s impossible, unless you’re a crook”. Bernie is living proof Harry knew what he was talking about.
A great President, Harry Truman, said, “you can’t get rich being a politician, it’s impossible, unless you’re a crook”. Bernie is living proof Harry knew what he was talking about.
Most liberal career Democrat politicians are top 1% millionaires such as Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Bernie Sanders and Maxine Waters. They couldn’t care less about the middle class Americans. The only reason they are talking about it now is because President Trump won the 2016 election by promising middle class Americans that they will never be forgotten again. These clueless socialist politicians now are trying to copy President Trump to appease those middle class Americans they have been ignoring for decades.
Typical communist, do as I say not as I do.
Typical communist, do as I say not as I do.
He was wealthy BEFORE he wrote that book, but I guess that he didn’t want to admit it !
His wife was indicated for a fraud land deal in regard to Burlington college. Amazing the charges were coincidentally dropped and she was cleared after he dropped out of the 2016 race.
His wife was indicated for a fraud land deal in regard to Burlington college. Amazing the charges were coincidentally dropped and she was cleared after he dropped out of the 2016 race.
Bernie Sanders needs to increase his dementia medications