Not trying to stir the pot, just reporting the facts. Bernie Sanders allowed himself to be talked into a trip to the Vatican. He got access to the exact time that the Pope would be leaving the building. Bernie sat in wait to force the Pope into a handshake. He made the play, but got no photo-op.
Bernie allowed himself to be set up. He created an opening for Donald Trump. CBS News happily obliged.
CBS News Article.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is mocking the brief meeting Bernie Sanders had with Pope Francis Friday, which the GOP front-runner mocked as a short "five minutes."
"You know, he went to see the pope," Trump said of Sanders during a rally in Syracuse, New York Saturday. "Five minutes. Then he came out. He said, 'We talked about the environment, we talked about global warming, we talked about all these different things.'"
"And I said, wait a minute, he was only there five minutes," Trump added. "So the pope gave him five minutes. I wonder why the pope gave him five -- he shouldn't have given him that much time really."
"Five minutes sounds like, you know, 'try and get me in to see him so I don't get myself embarrassed before I come back to New York," the billionaire said.
Ouch. The truth hurts, even when it comes from a horse’s ass.
I can't help but picturing the Bernie family nervously pacing outside the elevator waiting for the Pope to appear. I want to see the movie, explaining how exactly the Sanders campaign got the exact timing to make sure the Pope didn't leave the building five minutes too early.
Truthfully, I have been a groupie like Bernie in the same situation. I got to “meet” Lebron James in exactly the same way. The only difference? I didn't give Donald Trump the chance to use the truth against me.