Senator Bernie Sanders is making no excuses for his use of private jets.
Lastm onth, it was reported that he had spent over $200,000 on private jets to travel to events during his anti-Trump “FIght Oligarchy” tour.
In an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier, Sanders defended his use of these aircraft, saying he can’t be expected to wait in line at airpots.
Here is a transcript of the exchange:
BAIER: Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), she said you shouldn’t be using oligarch, it’s over people’s head.
You’ve gotten criticized from other people, the Free Beacon says, Bernie Sanders spent 221,000 on private jets fighting the oligarchy tour paid for by Friends of Bernie Sanders, that you’ve spent millions of dollars in campaign funds on private jet travel over the years.
How do you push back on both of those things?”
SANDERS: When’s the last time you saw Donald Trump during a campaign mode at National Airport?
BAIER: No, no, no. It doesn’t. But he’s also not fighting the oligarchy.
SANDERS: No. You run a campaign and do you three or four or five rallies in a week, the only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people, you think I’m going to be sitting on a waiting line at United waiting while 30,000 people are waiting? T
hat’s the only way you can get around. No apologies for that. That’s what campaign travel is about. We’ve done it in the past, we’re going to do it in the future.
Watch the clip below:
According to his campaign website, the tour’s purpose is really about working out how to push back against the Trump presidency.
Over the coming weeks, Bernie is going to be engaging in the struggle to determine where we go from here,” the website states in a request for financial support.
”That will take a modest amount of resources to travel, organize, hold events, and create content that reaches people where they are.”
Meanwhile, attendees at the outdoor rallies have recently been urged to wear face nappies.
“Masks are advised for all attendees of this event,” organizers wrote in an email ahead of an event in Colorado.
“Anyone experiencing a fever or other symptoms of COVID-19 is asked to stay home and not attend.”
