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Bernie Sanders Destroys Religious Bigot During Confirmation Hearing
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June 9, 2017
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10:08Now PlayingDuring a recent confirmation hearing Senator Bernie Sanders took a Trump nominee to task for bigoted comments about Muslims. Ana Kasparian and Grace Baldridge, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tore into one of President Donald Trump’s nominees on Wednesday for saying that Islam is “a deficient theology” and that Muslims “stand condemned” for rejecting Jesus Christ.
Sanders went after Russell Vought, Trump’s choice for deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, as he testified in his Senate Budget Committee nomination hearing. The Vermont senator brought up a January 2016 post that Vought wrote on a conservative blog in which he argues that someone can’t really “know God” without focusing on Jesus.
“Muslims do not simply have a deficient theology,” Vought wrote at the time. “They do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his Son, and they stand condemned.”
Such a statement is “indefensible, it is hateful and Islamophobic, and an insult to over a billion Muslims throughout the world,” Sanders told the room. He asked Vought, who sat facing him, if he thinks his past comments are Islamophobic."*
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