"I am proud to announce
the modern-day oligarchs who oppose our movement."
Asking the American public to
judge his 2020 Democratic presidential campaign by both its supporters and its
powerful enemies, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday unveiled an "anti-endorsement"
list consisting of prominent billionaires, Wall Street bankers, and corporate
CEOs who have attacked his candidacy and policies.
"You can tell who is
truly fighting for working families by the enemies they make, and we've made a
lot of enemies," Sanders said in a statement. "We understand that nothing
will fundamentally change for working Americans unless we have the guts to take
on the most powerful corporate interests in this country."
"Therefore it should come
as no surprise that corporate CEOs and billionaires have united against our
movement," Sanders added. "These people have a vested interest in
preserving the status quo so they can keep their grip on power so they can
continue to exploit working people across America. We welcome their
hatred."
The Sanders campaign lists the
Vermont senator's anti-endorsements on a new webpage. The page includes
billionaire Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban, who attacked
Sanders as a "disaster zone" in an interview published
Wednesday.
The rest of the list consists
of:
Billionaire Home Depot
co-founder Kenneth Langone;
Former CKE Restaurants CEO
Andy Puzder;
Former Verizon CEO Lowell
McAdam;
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie
Dimon;
Disney CEO Bob Iger;
Former General Electric CEO
Jeffrey Immelt;
Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd
Blankfein;
Former Federal Reserve
chairman Alan Greenspan;
Centrist think-tank Third Way;
Former Goldman Sachs partner
Leon Cooperman;
Home Depot co-founder Bernard
Marcus; and
Billionaire hedge fund manager
Stanley Druckenmiller.
"As we fight for an
agenda that guarantees basic human rights for all Americans, we will be opposed
by the most powerful forces in America," Sanders wrote on his website.
"I am proud to announce the modern-day oligarchs who oppose our movement.
In the words of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 'They are unanimous in
their hate for me–and I welcome their hatred.'"
"We will overcome their
greed," said Sanders, "and create an economy and a government that
works for all, not just the one percent.
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