Bernie Sanders Rips Trump In Fiery Takedown: Only a ‘Coward’ Sues Media For Reporting ‘Things You Don’t Like’

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) hit the road this week with rallies in the southwest, including one in Tempe, Arizona, on Thursday during which he called President Donald Trump a “coward” for suing media outlets he doesn’t like.

Sanders began by praising the founders, who he said “understood that in our constitution and in our government, you had to have a separation of powers so that no one person had it all.”

He continued, in a not-so-subtle swipe at Trump, “And they created an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judiciary. And every day, Trump is trying to take power away from the Congress. He is trying to take power away from the judiciary.”

“Unbelievably, when a court makes a decision, you can agree with it, you can disagree with it. Most of us thought that Citizens United decision was a horrible decision. Most of us thought that the decision to override Roe v. Wade was a terrible decision. But in our form of government, you don’t impeach judges for writing a decision you disagree with,” hammering Trump’s call to impeach the judge who ruled against his deportations to El Salvador. Sanders added:

In our form of government, unless you are a coward, you don’t sue the media because they report on things you don’t like. You don’t sue the Des Moines Register because they did a poll whose results you don’t like. In a democratic society, we understand that criticism and debate is what makes this country great.

And unless you are a coward like Trump is, you welcome that debate and that discussion. But it’s not just oligarchy that we are going to fight, it’s not just authoritarianism that we’re going to fight. We will not accept a society today in which we have massive income and wealth inequalities where the very rich have never done better while working families are struggling to put food on the table. And we’re not, you know, I know we’re in a hockey rink and you got guys playing defense, but they also play offense. And our offense is to remind us all, and every person in this country, we are the wealthiest nation in the history of this world.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.