Despite Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton‘s repeated attempts to focus her campaign’s attacks on Republican rival Donald Trump, her party rival Bernie Sanders keeps popping up with the occasional jab as the two continue to fight for the nomination. The longtime Independent senator from Vermont has especially been harsh on Clinton for her supposed financial ties to non-environmentally friendly groups, so a bunch of Greenpeace activists decided to confront the former Secretary of State and New York senator about these connections at a rally on Thursday night. As the video above suggests, it didn’t go so well.
The slightly off-camera activist thanked Clinton for addressing climate change in her remarks, then asked if she’d reject “fossil fuel money.” That’s when Clinton lost it, per Talking Points Memo:
“I do not have—I have money from people that work for fossil fuel companies,” Clinton said, waving her finger at the woman who asked the question. “I am so sick, I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me. I’m sick of it.”
Local Wisconsin television station WGRZ reported earlier that during a rally, Sanders touted his campaign’s distance from “Wall Street… drug companies and the fossil fuel industry.” Why? Because the senator’s grassroots campaign has long been a major talking point for his presidential campaign, and something he and his staffers have regularly used in attacks on Clinton.
Hence Clinton’s visible annoyance in the Greenpeace video. The anger displayed in that brief moment was so palpable, a bunch of Hollywood executives are probably writing up a treatment for Hillary Clinton V Bernie Sanders right now. At least it’d be shorter than Batman V Superman.
(Via Talking Points Memo)