Donald Trump Supporter Heckles Bernie Sanders at Campaign Rally
A Donald Trump supporter was escorted out of a Bernie Sanders campaign rally in Massachusetts over the weekend after the man heckled the 2016 Democratic candidate.
The Vermont senator was addressing a crowd of more than 3,000 people at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst on Saturday when he was briefly interrupted by a man wearing a Trump T-shirt. Sanders was talking about wealth inequality when he was interrupted by the man, who shouted, "Shame on you Bernie!" from the third row of the auditorium, according to The Sacramento Bee.
"Here is a Trump supporter worried about Mr. Trump's money," Sanders said in response, prompting boos from the audience. The heckler was then removed from the auditorium by Sanders' staff while the crowd chanted "Bernie, Bernie, Bernie" to drown out the protester.
The man, however, continued to fist-pump during his exit. He was also holding a sign that read, "Obama is as Christian as Bruce Jenner is a woman."
Once the Trump supporter was removed, Sanders said, "I say to Mr. Trump and his supporters that the billionaires of this country will not continue to own this nation."
During the rally, Sanders also criticized Trump for calling for a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants entering the country and a mass deportation of undocumented residents.
"We all know people are angry and they are upset for a lot of good reasons," the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist said. "But what we have got to do is not let Trump and these other people divide us up. Latinos who are picking tomatoes for eight bucks an hour are not the reason that the middle class of this country is disappearing. Muslim kids who are going to schools studying to be engineers are not the reason we have income and wealth inequality."
Back in October, Trump bashed Sanders, saying, "I call him a socialist-slash-communist, because that's what he is," reports CNN.
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