WEST LIBERTY — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders called President Donald Trump a "demagogue," pushing the nation into an "authoritarian" direction while preying on immigrants, during a forum Aug. 22 at a church in West Liberty.

"We have a president right now who is a demagogue, and what a demagogue wants is more power for himself," Sanders told more than 50 people who gathered at the event held at St. Joseph Catholic Church by immigration rights advocacy group Escucha Mi Voz Iowa. "And the way that demagogues have always done it throughout history, in Europe, all over the world, is they pick on a group of people who are a minority, who are politically powerless."

"In this case," he said, "it's the undocumented."

Sanders stopped in West Liberty Friday late afternoon ahead his stop in Davenport

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