Bernie being Bernie:

Bernie Sanders tells @bpolitics breakfast w/reporters he’ll return to the Senate as an Independent, not a Dem: ‘I was elected as an Ind.’

— Susan Page (@SusanPage) July 26, 2016

And you wonder why so many lifelong Democrats question Bernie’s motives and didn’t trust him, including those at the DNC? There you have it.

He’s not interested in working with the DNC or improving the Democratic party. He’s interested in doing his own thing.