Bernie Sanders Dodges Questions About FBI Probe
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jun 27, 2017
Senator Bernie Sanders refused on multiple occasions to answer questions about the FBI investigation into an allegedly fraudulent loan application filed by his wife when interviewed on Fox.
When asked if he still believes the investigation was politically motivated, Sanders brushed off the reporter and instead offered a few boiler-plate talking points about the health-care bill being debated in the Senate. When asked about the probe by a local Vermont reporter last month, Sanders called allegations that his office leaned on People’s United Bank to approve a controversial loan to a college led by his wife as “nonsense” and claimed the probe was politically motivated, citing the involvement of Vermont GOP Vice Chair Brady Toensing.
His redirect: “Well I’m glad that you’re interested in the fact that the Republican leadership has proposed legislation which would throw millions of people off health insurance.”
A complaint against Jane Sanders was filed in early 2016 by Toensing, who also served as the Vermont campaign chairman for Donald Trump during his presidential run, according to the Associated Press. In a separate complaint, Toensing alleged that Bernie Sanders’ senatorial office pressured a bank to approve the loan.
Sanders used a similar dodge when speaking with a reporter from the AP.“That’s not what I’m here to talk about today,” Sanders said, adding that he wanted to keep the focus on health care.
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