Bernie Sanders says Donald Trump is a "pathological liar."

[Eric J in MN]

This morning on "This Week with George Stephanopolous:"

BERNIE SANDERS: I think you have a pathological liar there (Donald Trump).

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Pathological.

SANDERS: Pathological, I really do. I mean, I think much of what he says are lies or gross distortion of reality. Here's the fact. I mean, he's been saying over and over again that he saw on television, as I understand it, thousands of people in New Jersey celebrating 9/11 right the destruction of the Twin Towers.

Either that's true or it's not true. And what I understand, there have been a lot of research, they archive what goes on television. You're a TV guy, right? Everything was saying that was going to be archived.

Either it is true, it is not true. Nobody has seen a tape of thousands of people celebrating the destruction of the Twin Towers in New Jersey. It doesn't exist. And he keeps claiming it. That's called pathological lying.

Yes, he just (INAUDIBLE) a few moments ago accused me of lying when I said last night is that he has suggested that Mexicans who were coming to this country are criminals and rapists. That is exactly what he said. What somebody like a Donald Trump is doing is playing on the fears and anxieties of the American people. And people are afraid.

They're afraid of terrorism, rightfully so. They're anxious about an economy in which the middle class is disappearing, missing massive levels of income and wealth inequality. People are worried about the future for the kids. These are legitimate fears.

So instead of having a rational discussion about how we rebuild the middle class, how we deal with Wall Street, how we have a tax system in which wealthy and powerful start paying their fair share of taxes, what Trump is saying is it's all the Muslims' fault, it's all the Mexicans' fault.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-gov-chris-christie-sen-bernie-sanders/story?id=35854734

[saltpoint]

1. Senator Sanders' assessment of Trump is

correct, but perhaps too charitable.

[Punkingal]

2. I saw that...priceless! Now if Trump starts talking about Bernie...

It will only get Bernie more attention.

[Dem2]

3. He ain't wrong!

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Watching this go around with some of the so called

Rethug Candidates. Reminds one of Recess at the local Elementary School. Bernie shows up as the Adult on the ground and takes command of the ciaos and infighting. Then gets people focused on what really matters. Everybody not just a few.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Eric J in MN.

[onehandle]

6. No kidding. nt