"I know Bernie Sanders, and you, sir, are no Bernie Sanders!" Blowing the whistle on Trump.

Fox News and the White House are making an equivalency between Bernie Sanders' responsibility for the Steve Scalise shooting and Trump's responsibility for the pipe bombs.

This morning on Fox, the three hosts on F&F were claiming that Sanders' earlier speech in which he said that if a health bill did or didn't pass in Congress, "thousands will die" (it never even mentioned Scalise!) was equivalent to what Trump spews daily.

I guess we're supposed to believe that such a statement will inflame and direct his followers' anger (so that a mentally unstable follower might resort to violence) as much as Trumps' speeches where he continually paints the news media, an entire party as well as a list of certain individuals as evil, questioning their morality and patriotism with rhetoric like "enemies of the people," "Crooked Hillary," etc.

Putting aside the mentions of physical violence in Sanders' rhetoric (none that I know of) compared to Trumps' (calling for people to be jailed, roughed up, punched, etc.), a politician's dire warnings concerning a piece of legislation is not in the same universe what Trump spews daily. The comparison is obscene and needs pointed out for as long as the White House and Fox News makes this "case."