Bernie Sanders says he is going to break up the big banks. “If they are too big to fail, they are too big to exist,” he insists frequently on the campaign trail.
But, does a real progressive do this? It is nothing short of scandalous.
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—Scandal rocked Bernie Sanders’s Presidential campaign on Friday as the candidate was forced to admit that he received free checking from several big banks.
In a press conference in Manchester, New Hampshire, a chastened Sanders acknowledged that, over the past two decades, he received free checking from Bank of America, Citibank, and JPMorgan Chase in exchange for maintaining a five-hundred-dollar minimum balance.
“I should have acknowledged my relationship with these banks earlier,” a subdued Sanders told reporters. “For that, I am sorry.”
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I admit to “Feeling the Bern” most of the time, but this new revelation gives me pause. A true public servant cannot be lacking in honesty and integrity.