{"id":94500,"date":"2026-06-03T10:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bernie-sanders-defends-platner-billionaire-donors-are-worried-hes-going-to-stand-up-to-the-oligarchs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:42:03","slug":"bernie-sanders-defends-platner-billionaire-donors-are-worried-hes-going-to-stand-up-to-the-oligarchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bernie-sanders-defends-platner-billionaire-donors-are-worried-hes-going-to-stand-up-to-the-oligarchs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Defends Platner: Billionaire Donors Are Worried He&#8217;s Going To Stand Up To The Oligarchs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) defended Graham Platner on Tuesday before a meeting: &#8220;All I can tell you is that the wealthiest people in this country have now reserved close to 100 million dollars in TV ads in a small state like Maine. So what are the billionaires worried about? Why are they spending so much money trying to defeat this guy? The answer is that he&#8217;s going to stand up to the oligarchs.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Sen. Bernie Sanders told me he&#8217;s certainly not rethinking his endorsement of Graham Platner following news that he sent sexually explicit text messages to women.<\/p>\n<p>My understanding is that his wife, Amy, who I&#39;ve met, indicated they love each other, but maybe we focus on\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pQnzmH9a2w\">pic.twitter.com\/pQnzmH9a2w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mychael Schnell (@mychaelschnell) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mychaelschnell\/status\/2061560009910374778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/02\/bernie_sanders_defends_platner_billionaire_donors_are_worried_hes_going_to_stand_up_to_the_oligarchs.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) defended Graham Platner on Tuesday before a meeting: &#8220;All I can tell you is that the wealthiest people in this country have now reserved close to 100 million dollars in TV ads in a small state like Maine. So what are the billionaires worried about? Why are they spending so much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7600,5471,29,8363,296,2011,23213,29169,7601,3452,9852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}