People are getting “sick and tired” of Elon Musk “running the United States government,” and his accusation that Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., is a traitor for visiting Ukraine is “beyond the pale,” according to independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“Kelly is a military guy who serves his country [and] went to Ukraine to get a sense of how the Ukrainian people are responding to [President Donald Trump’s] betrayal of the country, and you have Musk talking about Mark Kelly as a traitor,” Sanders told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday, reported The Hill.

Kelly is a decorated former naval aviator and retired astronaut, and Sanders said Musk’s criticism of him is “disgusting.”

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