Claim:
Senator Bernie Sanders wrote on Twitter that he wanted to destroy capitalism and "dethrone God."
On 31 January 2016, the Facebook group "Tea Party Standup" posted a fake photo purportedly showing a screenshot from Bernie Sanders' Twitter account:
There is no record of this tweet appearing on Sanders' Twitter timeline.
The above-displayed photo first started circulating in August 2015 and was most likely created by John Trulli, a Facebook user who frequently posts memes and fabricated tweets to his page. On 10 August 2015, Trulli shared the above-displayed image and a few days later he admitted that it was fake:
It should also be noted that the quote, "It is my objective in life to dethrone God and destroy capitalism," is frequently attributed to Karl Marx.
