Bernie Sanders said recently that President Donald Trump’s rule is in effect an “oligarchy” of billionaires. The 83-year-old senator from Vermont said, “These are the scariest times in my life.”

Sanders told his Facebook followers: “Are you ready for a boring history lesson? Back in the 1770s, the founding fathers of this country, who were nobody’s fools, created a government of checks and balances. They created an executive branch; a legislative branch, the Congress; a judiciary, our federal court system, to keep a check on each other.” So far so good.

Sen. Sanders continues, “What is happening now, in a way that is unprecedented, is Donald Trump is accumulating more and more power into his own hands.”

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