"When large financial institutions charge over 25% interest on credit cards, they are not engaged in the business of making credit available," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "They are engaged in extortion and loan sharking."
I would have assumed he just never paid any of it and eventually the courts said "Well fuck, we'd feel awful if we actually sent the repo man to the Whitehouse, let's just let him off the hook."
During Trump's first term in the White House, Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation that would have capped credit card interest rates at 15%.
Just nine Democrats in the House and one in the Senate co-sponsored the bill, which received zero Republican support.