Bernie Sanders Avoids Responding To Trump’s ‘Absurd’ Comment

Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders Fundraiser Rally at The Avalon, Los Angeles, America - 14 Oct 2015 (Rex Features via AP Images)
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joked Sunday when he was asked to respond to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments.

Trump had called Sanders a “maniac” and a “socialist slash communist.”

ABC “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos asked Sanders for his response.

“Well, if I had to respond to every absurd thing that Donald Trump said, I would spend my whole life doing it,” Sanders said, before transitioning to The Donald’s tax plan and his own ideas for reforming the nation’s taxes.

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  1. Shorter Bernie: “Fuck Trump.”

  2. Would someone finally answer a question about something Drumpf says with “what, you think I care what a guy with Four Bankruptcies has to say about my economic plan?”.

  3. Whether you are a Hillary supporter or a Bernie supporter or any D supporter, you just gotta love this guy.

  4. “Well, if I had to respond to every absurd thing that Donald Trump said, I would spend my whole life doing it,”

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  5. Or the TPM version:
    "Well, we´ll cover every absurd thing that Donald Trump says, if we have to spend the whole website doing it.¨

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