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Headline Roundup January 16th, 2020

Sanders Campaign Organizer Filmed Threatening Violence if Defeated in Primary

Summary from the AllSides News Team

In undercover footage released by right-leaning watchdog Project Veritas, an organizer for Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign in Iowa is heard saying Milwaukee, the site of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, "will burn" if Sanders loses the nomination. The campaign worker also threatened violence against media members, and suggested Soviet-style forced labor camps should be used to "re-educate" Trump supporters and the wealthy. As of Thursday evening, no left-rated outlets and few center-rated outlets have reported on the story. The news has gotten widespread attention from right-leaning media.

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Project Veritas–Bernie Campaigner Dreams of Slaying MSNBC Hosts: ‘Liberals Get the F***ing Wall First’
Project Veritas–Bernie Campaigner Dreams of Slaying MSNBC Hosts: ‘Liberals Get the F***ing Wall First’

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Undercover footage released by Project Veritas on Tuesday shows a field organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) 2020 campaign warning that liberals will “get the f***ing wall first” in a socialist revolution.

The remark, uttered by an individual identified as Kyle Jurek, was prompted by a Project Veritas journalist, who asked: “Guys like that (liberals), what are we going to do with them?”

“Gulag,” Jurek quipped with a laugh, before adding: “Liberals get the f***ing wall first.”

The Sanders organizer’s comment is a play on the expression “against the wall,”...

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Sanders Campaign Organizer: Free Education, Gulags Needed To "Re-Educate" You To Not Be A "F*cking Nazi"
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A campaign organizer for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders warned about mass violence and advocated for the use of gulags for "re-education" in a conversation caught on tape by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. In the undercover video, Kyle Jurek, an Iowa field organizer for the Sanders campaign, said the country will have to "spend billions" on re-education for people that are "Nazified."

Jurek said the candidate's "free education" policies will "teach you how not to be a f*cking Nazi." He touted post-war Germany spending money to "re-educate" people not to...

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Bernie Sanders aides lock Twitter accounts after Project Veritas exposé
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Two Iowa field directors for Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign locked their Twitter accounts after a Project Veritas video showed a "top-tier organizer" saying "Milwaukee will burn" if the senator doesn't win the Democratic nomination.

Sanders organizer Kyle Jurek told undercover journalists that "there is a reason why Stalin had gulags," that Sanders wanted "free education" so that Trump supporters could be taught how to "not be a f---ing Nazi," and that he wants to "walk into that MSNBC studios, drag those motherf---ers out by their hair, and light them...

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