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Sanders slams Adelson for supporting Trump

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tuesday warned that the country “is going to slip into an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires control our political and economic life” after GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson announced his support of Donald Trump for president.
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May 18, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tuesday warned that the country “is going to slip into an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires control our political and economic life” after GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson announced his support of Donald Trump for president.

During a campaign in Carson, California Tuesday night, which turned into a victory speech after winning the Oregon primary, Sanders said there’s something “even crazier” than the Koch brothers contributing $40 million to maintain the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. “A guy named Sheldon Adelson—also one of the wealthiest people in America—a billionaire who is prepared to contribute huge sums of money to another billionaire named Donald Trump,” Sanders told the crowd, who booed in return.

“The American people are sick and tired of billionaires running our economy and our political life,” he added.