At a "Fight Oligarchy" rally in Nampa, Idaho on Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about President Trump blaming Ukraine for starting its war against Russia, which began after President Putin launched a full-scale invasion in 2022.
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00:00But it is not only domestic policy that we should be concerned with.
00:09For the first time in the 250-year history of our country,
00:16we have a president who is aligning himself with dictatorship abroad.
00:22No, President Trump, Ukraine did not start that war. Russia did.
00:43But it's not just Ukraine.
00:46Trump is following in the rather unfortunate behavior of Joe Biden
00:53and wants billions of dollars more to fund Netanyahu's war machine in Gaza.
01:05Israel, like any country on Earth, has the right to defend itself from terrorism,
01:11but it does not have the right to wage all-out war against the Palestinian people.
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02:15And as bad as all of that is, as bad as the reality that American bombs are killing children
02:33there, there is something now even worse.
02:36Trump and his friends have the brilliant idea that they want to forcibly expel the suffering
02:43people of Gaza, push them out so they can build a Riviera for their billionaire friends.
02:55That is absolutely insane.
02:58We will not allow that to happen.