Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is not shy about saying he’s a Democrat Socialist. It’s not exactly a secret.

During a recent CNN interview, Democrat Congressman Gregory Meeks says Bernie should NOT be running for president as a Democrat.

Sounds about right.

From American Mirror:

Meeks — who endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primary — told CNN that Sanders is not a Democrat and therefore should not be “allowed” to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.

When asked if he agreed that a “flaw” for Sanders is that he’s an old white male, Meeks said, “The difference for me is that he’s not a Democrat.

“So I don’t understand why Bernie Sanders, who does not want to become a member of the Democratic Party,” he said.

Sanders is being sued “over claims that he used his own political clout to punish a local businessman who ran an attack ad against Sanders.”

His wife ran a small college into the ground, by the way – but that’s another story, entirely.

From Daily Caller:

Rodolphe “Skip” Vallee, the CEO of St. Albans-based gasoline distributor and retailer R.L. Vallee, is alleging that Sanders and his senior press adviser, Daniel McLean, conspired against the business owner by drumming up a class-action lawsuit, according to federal court documents.

Vallee, who owns more than 45 gas stations in and around Vermont, produced an anti-Sanders television advertisement that aired locally in September 2014. The advertisement criticized Sanders for lambasting “the rich” over receiving tax breaks and golden parachutes, while his wife Jane Sanders received a $200,000 golden parachute after her involvement in a land deal helped to bankrupt Burlington College while she was president.

 

Bernie spent $300,000 on private flights in a single month. No joke.

From Daily Wire:

“According to federal campaign finance reports, Friends of Bernie Sanders, the senator’s official 2018 Senate campaign committee, spent $297,685.50 with Apollo Jets, a private charter jet service headquartered in New York,” the website VtDigger.com reported. “The report does not break down the number of trips or where they were taken. The check was issued on Oct. 10, according to the report.”

“This expense was for transportation for the senator’s 9-day, 9-state tour to support Democratic candidates up and down the ballot ahead of Election Day,” campaign spokesman Arianna Jones told VtDigger.com. “This cost covered the entirety of the tour from Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Carolina, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, California, and back to Vermont,” she said.

Jones said Sanders used private jets “to allow the senator to campaign in all of the states where candidates wanted his help and get back to Vermont in order to join the Vermont Democratic Party coordinated campaign’s final GOTV efforts. As Bernie often said while encouraging voters to get involved leading up to Election Day, this was the most important midterm election in our lifetimes and he wanted to have maximum impact.”