Yeah, Diane, Stormfront isn’t a credible news source.

Via Politico:

National Public Radio host Diane Rehm falsely stated in an interview with Bernie Sanders on Wednesday that the Vermont senator has dual Israeli citizenship.

In an unusual exchange in the middle of the interview with the recently declared 2016 presidential candidate, Rehm said she got the information about his alleged citizenship from a “list.”

“Senator, you have dual citizenship with Israel,” Rehm began, before Sanders interrupted.

“Well, no I do not have dual citizenship with Israel. I’m an American. I don’t know where that question came from. I am an American citizen, and I have visited Israel on a couple of occasions. No, I’m an American citizen, period,” Sanders said.

Sanders, who is Jewish, has visited Israel several times and spent several months working on a communal farm called a Kibbutz in the 1960s.

“I understand from a list we have gotten that you were on that list, forgive me if that is…” Rehm said.

The list Rehm may be referring to seems to be one that has circulated the internet for several years concerning U.S. government officials and members of Congress who allegedly hold dual citizenship with Israel.

“That’s some of the nonsense that goes on in the internet. But that is absolutely not true,” Sanders said.

Rehm then asked Sanders if there are other members of Congress who do have dual citizenship or if it is “part of the fable.”

Sanders said he did not know but that he was offended by her comment.

“I honestly don’t know but I have read that on the internet. You know, my dad came to this country from Poland at the age of 17 without a nickel in his pocket. He loved this country. I am, you know, I got offended a little bit by that comment, and I know it’s been on the internet. I am obviously an American citizen and I do not have any dual citizenship,” he said.

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