Difference between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: This is the difference between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders

Watch how they conduct their campaigns.

Written By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Washington Post, 09/02/15

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, is a former cultural ambassador for the United States and the author of several bestselling books. His latest novel, "Mycroft Holmes," comes out this month.

Trump is withering in response to questions he doesn’t like. (Mark Humphrey/AP)

Ernest Hemingway once said that courage was “grace under pressure.” Two presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have recently tested this proposition. And how each man responded revealed the type of person he is and the type of president he would make: Trump authored his own doom, and Sanders opened immense new possibilities as a compassionate person and serious candidate for president.

Here’s where it went fatally wrong for Trump. During the GOP debate on Fox, when Megyn Kelly famously queried him about his attitude toward women (whom he has called “fat pigs,” “dogs,” “slobs” and “animals”) he hit back by threatening the questioner: “I’ve been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me. But I wouldn’t do that.”

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