Roger Ver has offered the US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders $100,000 inwards the cast of a bitcoin donation he'll brand inwards his parent to a charity if he'll engage inwards a scrap alongside Republic of Iraq War veteran together with verbalise demo host Adam Kokesh.
The offering made inwards a video posted to Kokesh’s YouTube channel is inwards reply to video posted yesteryear the Occupy Democrats inwards which Sanders talks close wealthy the US citizens renouncing their citizenship. "Your policies are clearly intended to help," Ver, a bitcoin angel investor together with advisor to wallet service Blockchain, said inwards the video. "But it seems y'all don't run across how they are backed upward yesteryear violence." In the video, Ver takes upshot alongside the payment of taxes every bit a agency to fund the wars Sanders has widely spoken out against. Ver, who renounced his the US citizenship, denounced the persuasion of patriotism together with called on the wealthiest 1% of the the US population to halt paying taxes.
In the Bernie Sanders speech, which was edited together alongside images of the US citizens who get got purportedly renounced their citizenship — including Ver — the Democratic presidential candidate together with Senator from Vermont questions wealthy the US citizen who fled to other countries.
"These cracking lovers of America who made their money inwards this country," Sanders said inwards aspeech used inwards edited cast inwards the video. "When y'all inquire them to kickoff paying their fair part of taxes they’re running abroad." Ver’s offering to brand a donation inwards Sanders’s parent to a non-governmental entity is a mutual exercise during election season. In Ver's case, Sanders would get got to engage inwards a three-hour scrap alongside Kokesh, who made headlines in 2014 later he received no jail fourth dimension next controversial drug together with gun-related convictions. Ver said he’ll brand the donation inwards bitcoin inwards Sanders’ parent alongside "some of the taxation money I saved yesteryear renouncing my the US citizenship."