Henry Ford
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There was a court decision under seal at the time of this interview, that no one could access, that decided not to allow that power against Metlife under Dodd-Frank. No one could know the implications of that yet - the meeting between counsel and the court to decide whether it got unsealed was yesterday. Turns out the decision shouldn't have any effect whatsoever on the application of Dodd-Frank to banks, but neither the interviewer nor Sanders could know that at the time.OK so I finally read the Daily News transcript. First off the subway thing was stupid. The gun thing, I actually agree with him on (I think I wrote I disagreed yesterday, that was incorrect) but it's not a major issue to me one way or another. On Israel he exaggerated the number of Palestinians killed; a little troubling but again not that big a deal; I know where he stands on that issue. But as for his main issues...
It wasn't good. He didn't seem to know how he would go about breaking up the big banks. He suggested that Dodds-Frank might give the federal government the mechanism to do so, but was unsure. He wasn't sure what the consequences would be or how to go about it. He also wasn't sure of how to go about prosecuting the bank executives for 2008, which he's been very critical of Obama for NOT doing. He was directly asked on what authority the Justice Department would take such an action, and what they would be charged with, and he couldn't answer.
I'm pretty sure there ARE answers to these questions. But Bernie didn't have them at his fingertips, and he probably should since they represent the core of his campaign. I don't know how many people are actually going to read this article and whether or not it will affect his campaign at all. But I was troubled. He sounded, I'm afraid, a little like Trump. A deer caught in the headlights. That was my impression.
As for comparing him to Trump, you're over the rainbow. I don't think anyone can publicly claim a blanket statute whereby an entire industry in the financial collapse should be charged. There are a number of possibilities, and they'd be individualized.