The Bernie Sanders campaign has gone into damage control mode following the revelation of a staffer who ran a private Twitter account to troll Sanders’ fellow Democratic primary contenders.
Ben Mora worked as a regional field director for the Sanders campaign in Michigan. The Daily Beast now reports that Mora had used the Twitter handle @perma_ben to attack Sanders’ fellow candidates and their families. Mora referred to Sen. Amy Klobuchar as “pained, chunky, [and] confused origin/purpose.” He referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren–normally a respected associate of Sanders–as a “dumb Okie,” and “an adult diaper fetishist” that “looks like sh*t.” Mora also repeated the accusation that Warren lied about Native American ancestry to get into Harvard.
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When it comes to Pete Buttigieg, Mora said he “is what happens when the therapist botches the conversion.” He also predicted that Pete’s husband, Chasten, will be “busted for running a meth racket.” Mora, who is gay himself, also didn’t hesitate to attack other queer figures including activists on Instagram and the cast of Queer Eye.
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He also attacked gay supporters of other candidates. “Just got into a public screaming match with a gay staffer for the Democratic Party of Iowa who was trying to f*ck me and let’s just say….. he cried and I’m not sorry,” Mora tweeted in October. “This is if he had been a single modicum of hot I wouldn’t have protested at all but literally how dare you be a shill and also ugly with HORRIBLE BREATH.”
Update: Mike Casca, Sanders’ communications director, told me that “we are running a multiracial, multigenerational campaign for justice where disgusting behavior and ugly personal attacks by our staff will not be tolerated.”
Mora has been fired. https://t.co/PRmITbU4zk
— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) February 25, 2020
In a statement, the Sanders campaign assured the public that Mora had been fired, saying “we are running a multiracial, multigenerational campaign for justice where disgusting behavior and ugly personal attacks by our staff will not be tolerated.”
Though Mora has since deleted the entire account, the revelation of a direct link between the Sanders campaign and cyberbullies undermines Sen. Sanders’ own claim that his supporters are not responsible for online harassment. In the past, Sanders has suggested Russian troll bots may be the culprits.
Jenniferp412
Bernie is not a good guy. He would bankrupt America! You think medicare for all is a good thing. Go the the Texas/Mexico border and ask who goes into Mexica for health care. CANADIANS, because their health care sucks in Canada.
cliche guevara
That was a softball, I live in Texas and you are just straight up lying.
1898
you’re lying
I live on the US/Canada border and there are many Americans who go to Canada for healthcare
and that’s the truth, not a lie
Kangol2
@Jennifer, please turn off FauxNews, it’s rotting your brain!
Americans are going to Mexico, India and Dominican Republic because they can’t afford health insurance, let alone care here, Are you so out of it you don’t know this? And hat’s after the ACA helped to provide millions of people with health insurance, a good deal of which still is not affordable.
Additionally, millions of Americans cannot afford even to do that and have zero health care at all. Meanwhile, every Canadian receives health care at a lower cost than the US, it’s as good or better, and the main challenge is that if it is not an emergency, they may have to wait. But they get it. In the US, you may have to wait forever, until you die, if you don’t live in a state that provides Medicaid or you don’t qualify for Medicare.
Ronbo
I just want to bring back the same New Deal ideas that were abandoned after Reagan. I can see that the 1/3 to 1/2 savings on single-payer Medicare-for-All will provide the same economic stimulus and stability that Social Security provided for the past 85 years.
Our economy NEEDS it right now. It’s time for Democrats to move left and back into what actually works.
Rock-N-RollHS
Oh look, the Fake News war has begun. SMH. But must you traffic in such obvious lies! (And I’m not even a Bernie bro, far from it.)
Jon in Canada
Come on Bernie, have your fatal coronary already and spare us all this nonsense.
Taiyoken
And hey sat the “Bernie-Bros” are toxic. Nice.
Jared MacBride
Trump prays the Democrats will be dumb enough to nominate Bernie.
Ronbo
Trump isn’t aware that Sanders beats him in 47 out of the last 50 polls?!?
Don’t be so easily diverted by disinformation.
shakes_head
The top photo is of Scott Bixby, the trust fund brat masquerading as an online journalist digging through private accounts of low level staffers. Try harder guys…
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
All of a sudden he is refusing to release health records after having a heart attack…
Multiple poll show many who voted for the orange puppet are willing to vote for a Democrat just not Sanders. the Democratic party needs to wise up
And send him to where he belongs, on his front porch screaming at kids to get off his lawn…..
Doug
Something’s fishy about not releasing his health records since he’s had a heart attack. I really wonder how long this guy would stay alive as a POTUS.
1898
but do his health records even matter at this point? we already know he’s 78, we already know he had a heart attack. it’s hard to imagine there’s anything worse than that in his health records
Me2
Yeah, well those same polls showed Hillary winning in 2016 and Trump being laughed off the national political stage. Yet, here we are….
Kangol2
Actually, Bernie is beating Drumpf in national polls. Go figure.
Ronbo
Three individual, separate cardiologists have reviewed Sanders health and confirm ““At this point, I see no reason why he cannot continue campaigning without limitation and, should he be elected, I am confident he has the mental and physical stamina to fully undertake the rigors of the Presidency,” wrote Martin LeWinter, an attending cardiologist at the University of Vermont Medical Center, in one of three doctors’ assessments the Sanders campaign released on Monday.”
Trust the cardiologists more than the media.
Taiyoken
As usual you are lying in favor of the right wing. Polls show Bernie draws MORE Trump voters than any other candidate, Trump ran on faux-populism, which helped him win, after 4 years people can now see he was all lies, but Bernie is an actual populist.
All the polling, all the popular policies, and all the political momentum is on Bernie’s side
If you actually cared about beating “the orange puppet,” like you claim you do you’d stop spreading misinformation and support Bernie.
Taiyoken
@Me2
No they didn’t, the match up polls actually showed Hillary had a good chance of losing to Trump.
mz.sam
Presidential nominee Bernie Sanders = DONALD TRUMP > 4 MORE YEARS!
Doug
The more I’m seeing of Sanders lately, the less I like him. I watched him go on about how much his campaign was winning the caucuses this week, and I could have sworn I was listening to Trump.
Ronbo
Maybe you were listening to tRump. Astroturfing like that is just shameful.
5450daniel
Wow. Either a lot of paid shills here, brainwashed Republicans, or closeted gays. You’d think the LGBT community would be more supportive of a man who’s supported their rights for as long as he’s been in Washington. You’d think the LGBT community would be supportive of a man who’s fighting for those who need HIV medication, but can’t afford it. You’d think they’d be supportive of a man who’s trying to save the working middle class, unlike the conman Trump and the corporate Democrats who want to maintain the status quo. Wake tf up. If we don’t help this man become president, we’ve deserved every last thing that’s ever burdened our community for not electing someone who finally has our best interests in mind when it’s literally right in front of our faces.
valentino888
Agreed. Americans have become masochistic. The constant struggle seems to turn them on. Insane rents, low pay, bills becoming their entire LIFE, inequality on so many levels…and yet they don’t want it helped. Someone sincere comes along – trying to get us (the RICHEST country in the world) what EVERY non-3rd world country has, and it’s “too good to be true.” Once you say that…it becomes so. And we go right back to “comfortable suffering.” It’s disgusting.
OhHellNo
Oh, the irony. (Ben Mora is gay.)
GentlemanCaller
Oh no, an article critical of BS and his cult!! Cue the berniacs to descend in a tantrum of denial, distraction, whataboutism, and namecalling.