everything else aside, it's hard to understand why the campaign would push back on this. again: who couldn't see this kind of press coming? and, what this series of events is doing is less drawing attention to sanders' hypocrisy, which i think is a questionable assertion in context, and more drawing attention to his judgement. we've seen this come up in a number of situations. and, you can like a candidates' policies, but be unsure about whether giving that candidate executive power is really a good idea or not.

the entire discourse around this is missing the obvious question: why didn't he foresee this kind of bad press?

i think bernie needs to clean house. the people he has around him aren't helping him, right now.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/19/we-work-for-bernie-here-are-our-demands/