Bernie Sanders was a member of the House, flipping a red seat, as an Independent, but always caucusing with Democrats. Didn't serve as a socialist.

Bernie Sanders served as a member of the Senate, as an Independent, always caucusing with Democrats. Didn't serve as a socialist.

But top Democrats such as Senator and Secretary of State @JohnKerry lied to the American people and tried to smear Bernie as a socialist. Former head of the CIA Leon Panetta smeared Bernie as a socialist.

These are tactics Trump uses on Biden. Lies. Dishonesty. I loathe it.

So many of the unethical tactics that the MSM and Establishment Democrats abhor when Trump and Republicans do them, are ignored, especially by the press, who defends the establishment from GOP lies, but fosters them against progressives like Bernie. Voter fraud is a big one.

Establishment Democrats and the press uniformly condemn Trump's baseless charges of anticipated voter fraud. They all acknowledge it's the desperation of someone who expects to lose and is willing to lie and make excuses out of whole cloth.

It's wrong, unethical, and damaging.

But during the 2016 Democratic Primary when Hillary's people, David Brock and his super PAC, made baseless accusations of voter fraud, nobody in the press pushed back. No, instead they ask Bernie to defend against made up charges of bussed in voters. And I bring all this up ...

To point out how Establishment Democrats are all too thrilled to use and see these disgusting tactics work against progressives but are outraged when it used by Republicans against then. It's the hypocrisy, the lack of ethics, that just drives me crazy.

Receipt 1: Kerry tries to swift-boat Bernie by saying he was a socialist the whole time in the Senate when Kerry knows that a flat out lie. Bernie is an Independent who has always caucused with the Democrats and Kerry. https://twitter.com/JTHVerhovek/status/1223742397617786881

Receipt 2: This is insane. The former head of the CIA just lying and calling Bernie Sanders a socialist, not an Independent Senator as he actually is. This shit is why I honestly have zero respect for guys like this and the lying establishment. https://twitter.com/ChickHearnBern/status/1234534534797856769

Receipt 3: The press demanding that Bernie answer HRC's baseless and false accusations of anticipated voter fraud. This is exactly what Trump does. The lack of ethics by the Establishment is why Trump wins. He uses their own tactics against them 10x. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=Ym2Gu57IQAI