Not everyone had positive things to say about Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally for the Democratic nominee in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday.
Ahead of a speech by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a student of Iowa State University took the briefly took the stage where he attacked Clinton for her ties to billionaire donors and the military industrial complex.
The speech by Kaleb Vanfosson, the president of the Iowa State chapter of Students for Bernie club, started out with a knock against GOP nominee Donald Trump.
On rising student debt, Vanfosson said, “While the part-time reality TV show and full-time bigot Donald Trump thinks that brave and hard-working immigrants are what’s wrong with our country — he’s failing to even talk about this issue.”
Then, after a brief pause: “But unfortunately, Hillary doesn’t really care about this issue either.”
“The only thing she cares about is pleasing her donors: the billionaires that fund her [campaign],” Vanfosson said. “The only people who can really trust Hillary are Goldman Sachs. Citi Group can trust Hillary. The military-industrial complex can trust Hillary. Her good friend [former Secretary of State] Henry Kissinger can trust Hillary.”
As people in the audience began to cheer, he added, “We can’t trust Hillary. She is so trapped in the world of the elite that she has completely lost grip of what it’s like to be an average person. She doesn’t care. Voting for another lesser of two evils, there’s no point.”
Vanfosson was then escorted offstage by a man as some people in the audience clapped and hollered.
Vanfosson’s speech went, perhaps, a bit off-script, as he was scheduled to give a speech about Sanders and Clinton supporters coming together, according to Iowa State Daily.
Though Sanders has since come around to be one of Clinton’s most vocal surrogates in the final weeks of the campaign, as her primary rival he commonly dogged the former secretary of state for her ties to Wall Street and spoke openly against the “billionaire class.”
