Bernie Sanders Buys 3rd Home For $600,000, Twitter Reactions From Supporters and Haters

Bernie Sanders’s decision to purchase a third home isn’t sitting too well with some on social media. The Vermont senator purchased a $600,000 summer home in his own state. This is his third home.

According to Seven Days, the lakefront home is located in the Champlain Islands and will be used seasonally. Jane Sanders, Sanders’s wife, said in the Seven Days article that they’ve always traveled to the island for day trips. “We’ve been impressed with the North Hero community, eaten at the North Hero House and Shore Acres and have suggested them to friends who were looking for a beautiful place to stay or have dinner.”

Sanders and his wife also own a home on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., as well as in Burlington’s New North End, according to the article. The former presidential candidate endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton last month.

Twitter Reacts To Latest Bernie Sanders News Surrounding 3rd Home Purchase

Some on social media said that Sanders’s purchase was a non-story, while others expressed their skepticism.

#Socialism creates #poverty.

But being a socialist elitist?@BernieSanders' buys beach house as his third house:https://t.co/cGI6X9IdwS

— Michael Johns (@michaeljohns) August 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders just bought a 600k lake house. His 3rd house. Could he have been going along with it the whole time?

— WildArtificer (@WildArtificer) August 10, 2016

The "Bernie Sanders buy $600k house" story might be the dumbest one of the entire election cycle

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) August 10, 2016

Hey @BernieSanders, how is your new house? I'm glad I didn't donate a penny to your lying ass. If I had, you'd be paying it back. Suckers!!

— Bob Koch (@TheBobKoch) August 10, 2016

How foolish do the donors to Bernie's campaign feel now??? https://t.co/GOhhGv7BRR

— ✞♕In God I Trust♕✞ (@InGodIDoTrust) August 10, 2016

Congrats to Bernie Sanders on his new 600K vacation home–it's his 3rd house. Do all those $27 donors #feelthebern now?

— julipalooza (@ImJuliCaldwell) August 10, 2016

Nothing wrong w this imho, but he is a hypocrite if living by his own words: https://t.co/YH5GoccYs4

— Akshay Oberai (@AkshayOberai) August 10, 2016

Glad to see Bernie Sanders, fresh off his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, improving the lower class by buying himself a $600,000 house.

— Sam Greubel (@samgreubel) August 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders… man of the people, the poor people, buys a 3rd house for $600K

— Buck Rogers (@fcane232) August 10, 2016

@BernieSanders @SenSanders You're a fraud. How many of the "working class" can afford this?https://t.co/ZsxjTkjy6t https://t.co/KAW9SjnkrI

— Matt Martin (@TheRealMJMartin) August 10, 2016

"Champion of the Middle and Lower Class" Bernie Sanders just bought a $600k beach house, his 3rd property. Still buying what he's selling?

— JayRod (@JCNew82) August 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders spends $600k on holiday home next to a picturesque lake: He campaigned for the White House on a message of income equality…

— Let's travel! (@wanderrlove) August 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders buys a house and thats hypocrisy?

Translation: You're jealous of Bernie#wiunion #wiright https://t.co/klNBpJvfGh

— Holden Mirror (@HoldenMirror) August 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders just bought a $600k lake front house… His third…. That's what I call equality.

— Ted Bracewell :D (@Tedakin) August 10, 2016

Everyone is mad.. but he sold his Maine home to buy this one. Who cares?! Happy for ya @BernieSanders! https://t.co/il3XtRhIth

— Kellye Tallent (@RadioKells) August 10, 2016

I was a Bernie Sanders supporter and I have no problem with him using the money he earned fairly to buy an expensive house.

— Friend (@DashTreyhorn) August 10, 2016

For a guy that talks so bad about the "1%", @BernieSanders seems to enjoy the same lifestyle. 600k vacation/3rd house? #hypocrite

— Billy Winter (@winterb04) August 10, 2016

.@BernieSanders Are you taking a mortgage interest deduction on the lakefront house you bought this week? Or on the other two homes you own?

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) August 10, 2016

Why are people so upset over Bernie Sanders buying that house. I'm sure he didn't pay cash.

— David Sanders (@THEDAVIDTEAMFL) August 10, 2016

What is your reaction to Sanders’s purchase?

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