Dave Portnoy lets rip at Bernie Sanders after attack on Donald Trump

 The Daily Express

 "What a funny way to congratulate Trump for negotiating Peace in the Middle East. By all accounts one of the most successful things any politician has done in recent memory and my man Bernie hasn't mentioned it once. It's just tough to take anything these people say seriously"

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"Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy condemned United States senator Bernie Sanders for failing to recognize Donald Trump's role in brokering a deal for peace in Gaza.

"On Thursday's episode of "What Now? With Trevor Noah", Sanders described Trump as a "demagogue" before taking aim at the President for blaming America's issues on "powerless minorities."

" 'Instead of addressing the serious crises that working families face, he deflects attention away from them by blaming powerless minorities for our problems," Sanders' official X account posted Thursday.

"Sanders' comments came after Trump announced this week that Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a peace plan for Gaza, a seismic development that could end the two-year war that has seen more than 67,000 Palestinians killed and 170,000 wounded, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

"The deal was signed almost exactly two years after Hamas-led militants raided Israel on October 7, 2023.

Bernie Sanders Is Lying To You About Taxes And The Rich – Issues & Insights

"It’s easy enough to dismiss Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endless lament that the rich don’t “pay their fair share of taxes,” but he should still be held to account when he flat-out lies about how much the rich do pay.

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"In an op-ed published by the Guardian, Sanders repeats a number of leftist tropes: income inequality has never been greater, the Trump tax cuts benefited the rich and big corporations, the middle class is getting screwed. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

"But then he starts making some remarkable claims.

"He says that Warren Buffett’s tax rate is 0.1%, “while the average schoolteacher paid 9.8%.”

"Elon Musk, he says, faced a tax rate of 3.3%. Jeff Bezos’ is less than 1%. Michael Bloomberg’s is 1.3%, while “the average registered nurse paid 13.3%.”

"If that seems too outrageous to be true, that’s because it is.

"Those numbers are based on an analysis by the leftist ProPublica, which compared the taxes paid by these billionaires with their wealth, not their income.

"But as anyone who pays taxes knows, the government taxes income, not some fanciful measure of wealth." . . . More...