"Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with
him ... It's all just baloney," the 2016
Democratic presidential nominee says.
By Allan Smith
January 21, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - Four
years since their rough Democratic primary battle,
Hillary Clinton has not let up on her criticism of
Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Clinton, the 2016
Democratic presidential nominee, says of Sanders in
a new documentary that "nobody likes him."
"He was in Congress for
years," Clinton says in the soon-to-be-released
four-part Hulu documentary "Hillary," The Hollywood
Reporter
said in a report. "He had one senator support
him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with
him, he got nothing done. He was a career
politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad
that people got sucked into it."
Asked by The Hollywood
Reporter in an interview released on Tuesday if her
assessment still stands, Clinton said, "Yes, it
does."
Clinton also criticized
the "culture" around Sanders, I-Vt., as the 2020
presidential contender has had high-profile disputes
with Democratic rivals such as former Vice President
Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in
recent weeks.
And Clinton would not
commit to endorsing Sanders if he becomes the
Democratic nominee.
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"I'm not going to go there
yet," she said about potentially supporting Sanders.
"We're still in a very vigorous primary season."
Sanders
endorsed Clinton in 2016 following the primary.
"I will say, however, that
it's not only him, it's the culture around him,"
Clinton added. "It's his leadership team. It's his
prominent supporters. It's his online Bernie Bros
and their relentless attacks on lots of his
competitors, particularly the women."
Clinton said Sanders has
"not only permitted" that culture, but is "very much
supporting it."
In a statement issued by
his campaign, Sanders responded, "My focus today is
on a monumental moment in American history: the
impeachment trial of Donald trump. Together, we are
going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous
president in American history."
Clinton's comments were
made public soon after Biden tweeted Monday that he
accepted
Sanders' apology after his campaign shared an
op-ed arguing that the former vice president had a
"big corruption problem."
Biden had also accused Sanders' campaign of
releasing a "doctored" video of his past
comments on Social Security and asked for an
apology.
"Thanks for acknowledging
this, Bernie," Biden, a leading 2020 Democratic
presidential contender,
tweeted. "These kinds of attacks have no place
in this primary. Let’s all keep our focus on making
Donald Trump a one-term president."
Speaking with CBS News on Monday, Sanders said:
"It is absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in
any way. And I'm sorry that that op-ed appeared."
He added that he was
"really" not a fan of supporters hitting fellow
Democratic contenders, saying, "If anyone knows me,
what I believe is we need a serious debate in this
country on issues. We don't need to demonize people
who may disagree with us."
The op-ed,
published in The Guardian, was written by law
professor and Sanders supporter Zephyr Teachout and
was shared by Sanders' speechwriter David Sirota in
a campaign newsletter. Teachout wrote that Biden's
"big corruption problem ... makes him a weak
candidate."
"It looks like 'Middle
Class' Joe has perfected the art of taking big
contributions, then representing his corporate
donors at the cost of middle- and working-class
Americans," she wrote. "Converting campaign
contributions into legislative favors and policy
positions isn’t being 'moderate.'"
That incident comes as the
Sanders campaign has increasingly targeted Biden.
This month, the Sanders campaign has taken Biden to
task over voting in favor of the Iraq War and for
past remarks on Social Security.
And Warren accused Sanders
this month of having told her in 2018 that he did
not think a woman could win the 2020 presidential
election. Sanders has strongly denied saying that.
This article was
originally published by "NBC"
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