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I did not compare Trump to Hitler, says Sanders

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05 April 2016   |   1:41 am
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said in an interview that he did not compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler during a campaign rally over the weekend in Wisconsin.
MADISON, WI - MARCH 26: Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) greets supporters before speaking at a campaign rally at the Alliant Energy Center on March 26, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. Voters in Wisconsin go to the polls April 5th for the state's primary. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP

MADISON, WI – MARCH 26: Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) greets supporters before speaking at a campaign rally at the Alliant Energy Center on March 26, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. Voters in Wisconsin go to the polls April 5th for the state’s primary. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said in an interview that he did not compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler during a campaign rally over the weekend in Wisconsin.

“Some of you know I’m Jewish. My dad came – my father came to this country at the age of 17 from Poland,” Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont, had said on Saturday at a town hall meeting in Milwaukee, when asked about Trump’s comments involving Muslims and banning them from the United States.

Wisconsin voters will go to the polls for the Democratic primary today.

Asked on Sunday by George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” if he was really “comparing Trump to Hitler,” Sanders said he did not make that comparison and instead was responding to the fears that Trump’s rhetoric has instilled in Muslims.

“What I talked about there was a Muslim woman there next to me, and she is telling me that, what is true is that people in the Muslim community are very fearful now. She was describing a kid who now locks the door at night,” Sanders told Stephanopoulos.

“And what I was saying is I’m going to do everything that I can to kind of stop those Islamophobic attacks so that kids in this country who happen to be Muslim are afraid. No, I did not compare Trump to Hitler. But I will do everything that I can to stop this type of hatred and hate talk that we are hearing.”

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