Bernie Sanders and his campaign pull ridiculous “birtherism” stunt – and it blows up in their face

| 2:57 pm EST February 19, 2020
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The Bernie Sanders movement is supposed to be about progressive ideals. So why did Bernie hire a bunch of liars and trolls as senior advisers to his 2020 campaign? He doesn’t appear to believe he can win the nomination unless he fights as dirty as possible. This all came to a head today when Bernie’s 2020 National Press Secretary Briahna Joy Gray appeared on CNN and made a number of false and absurd claims that were almost Trump-ian in nature.

To be as clear as possible, Gray isn’t just some Bernie Sanders surrogate or supporter – she works for him. She’s one of the highest ranking employees in the Bernie 2020 campaign. In fact, in her role as Press Secretary, she officially speaks for Bernie. This morning she tried to distract from Bernie’s recent heart attack, and his refusal to release detailed medical records, by falsely claiming on CNN today that Mike Bloomberg had a heart attack. Then things got even uglier.

Bloomberg has had a heart operation in the past, but certainly no heart attack. After pushback, Gray claimed on Twitter that she misspoke. The trouble is that it wasn’t even the most asinine thing she said during her interview. Gray claimed on air that Bernie is the victim of “birtherism” because people are demanding to see his medical records. If you’ve forgotten, birtherism refers to demands to see Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Not surprisingly, this remark didn’t go over particularly well:

Is Bernie Sanders going to fire these embarrassing campaign advisers and try to steer his campaign back toward progressive ideals? Or has Bernie permanently chosen his own ego and ambition over the ideals of his supporters?