Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has railed about the nation’s billionaires while on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has been using private jets for his travels, according to campaign expenditure reports.
Documents from the Federal Election Commission released this week show that the Vermont Independent senator’s main campaign committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders, has spent $221,723 to charter private jets during the first quarter of this year, reports The Washington Free Beacon Thursday.
The first payment was made just before the tour launched in February, the documents show.
Sanders, during the tour’s latest stop in California on Tuesday, said that “we will not accept a rigged economy where working people struggle while billionaires become richer,” and called for an economy that works for “working people, not just [Elon] Musk and the billionaire class.”
The senator in the past spoke out against millionaires and billionaires, but became a millionaire himself shortly before he ran for president in 2020 and switched his speeches to fire against billionaires instead.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, also running in the 2020 presidential race, mocked Sanders for growing his wealth while speaking out for socialism.