Donald Trump slammed Bernie Sanders’ decision to campaign alongside Hillary Clinton on Tuesday after the Vermont senator spent months criticizing her positions on trade and foreign policy and her cozy relationship with Wall Street.
“Today, Bernie Sanders will be endorsing one of the most pro-war, pro-Wall Street, and pro-offshoring candidates in the history of the Democratic Party,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said in a statement released by his campaign. “The candidate who ran against special interests is endorsing the candidate who embodies special interests.”
Trump, who’s borrowed several of the socialist senator’s lines of attack against Clinton since the primary came to an end, said he was “suprised” by Sanders for backing the former secretary of state ahead of the Democratic National Convention.
“I am somewhat surprised that Bernie Sanders was not true to himself and his supporters,” he tweeted hours before Sanders and Clinton arrived in Portsmouth, N.H. for their first joint appearance on the campaign trail. He later added that Sanders “has lost most of his leverage [and] totally sold out to Crooked Hillary Clinton.”
I am somewhat surprised that Bernie Sanders was not true to himself and his supporters. They are not happy that he is selling out!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2016
Despite endorsing Clinton, a spokesman for Sanders told the Washington Examiner on Monday that the Vermont senator will continue his campaign until the Democratic convention later this month.
Trump likened Sanders’ endorsement of Clinton to “Occupy Wall Street endorsing Goldman Sachs” shortly after the Democratic duo concluded their rally in the Granite State. He accused the Vermont senator of abandoning his supporters by backing the “pro-war, pro-TPP” candidate.
“To all the Bernie voters who want to stop bad trade deals [and] global special interests, we welcome you with open arms. People first,” Trump tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
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