Far-left Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a socialist and climate change alarmist, accidentally boarded the wrong private jet, reported TMZ on Saturday.
“The Democratic front-runner was spotted Saturday making his way off of a private Gulfstream between campaign stops in South Carolina and Massachusetts — the latter being where he held a rally at Boston Common ahead of Super Tuesday,” the TMZ report outlined.
The outlet also included a photo of Sanders seemingly walking off the private jet that was not his. “Bernie’s been flying all over the country for different campaign events,” said TMZ, “[m]istakes like this (getting on the wrong Gulfstream) are bound to happen.”
While Sanders promotes socialist solutions to his climate alarmism, the Vermont senator spent a whopping $1.2 million on private jet travel in just three months, from October to December of 2019, The Daily Wire highlighted in February.
“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is campaigning to be the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee on a progressive, socialist agenda, but his campaign’s spending is more in line with the ‘one percent’ than the working class,” The Daily Wire noted. “The Washington Free Beacon reports that Sanders’ campaign spent an astounding $1.2 million on private jets during the last quarter of 2019 — more, even, than former Vice President Joe Biden and billionaire presidential candidate, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.”
“Sanders’ Federal Election Commission filings reveal that the ‘Democratic socialist’ shelled out $1,199,579 to Apollo Jets, LLC, a ‘luxury private jet charter service,’ per the Free Beacon, even though his own campaign views private air travel as one of the top contributors to climate change (and as a luxury of the rich, to boot). The campaign paid an additional $23,941 to a Virginia-based private pilot service,” the report continued.
Under a section called “The Green New Deal” on his campaign website, Sanders outlines the dire need to combat climate change.
“Climate change is a global emergency,” the candidate’s site reads. “The Amazon rainforest is burning, Greenland’s ice shelf is melting, and the Arctic is on fire. People across the country and the world are already experiencing the deadly consequences of our climate crisis, as extreme weather events like heat waves, wildfires, droughts, floods, and hurricanes upend entire communities, ecosystems, economies, and ways of life, as well as endanger millions of lives. Communities of color, working class people, and the global poor have borne and will bear this burden disproportionately.”
“We need a president who has the courage, the vision, and the record to face down the greed of fossil fuel executives and the billionaire class who stand in the way of climate action,” the site adds. “We need a president who welcomes their hatred. Bernie will lead our country to enact the Green New Deal and bring the world together to defeat the existential threat of climate change.”
Moreover, mere weeks ago, the Democratic presidential candidate was spotted sitting in a first-class seat, The Daily Wire reported.
“A nervous democratic socialist in first class,” a man named Hank Thomas captioned the photo Sanders, adding the hashtag, “#FeelTheBern.”
A nervous democratic socialist in first class. #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/XbONXNBZNn
— Hank Thomas (@HankThomasDC) February 13, 2020
Thomas also posted evidence for his shot, following-up with a tweet that included a photo of the Embraer ERJ-175’s first class seating arrangement.
“Here is a pic of American Eagle first class on an Embraer ERJ-175. Much less interesting when unoccupied,” he wrote, adding a link to layout of the plane’s seating, which can be accessed here.
Here is a pic of American Eagle first class on an Embraer ERJ-175. Much less interesting when unoccupied. Link to seat map: https://t.co/P1DDzxHpNN pic.twitter.com/5H68z207KV
— Hank Thomas (@HankThomasDC) February 13, 2020
“The jarring photo of Sen. Sanders, a man who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and consistently advocates socialist policies, riding in first class accommodations predictably went viral,” The Daily Wire noted at the time. “The tweet racked up nearly 30,000 likes and over 12,000 comments in less than 24 hours.”