This is the difference between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders

[Commentary] How Donald Trump and Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded under pressure revealed the type of person he is and the type of president he would make.

Trump threatened Megyn Kelly for no other reason than to stifle other journalists who might want to ask tough but reasonable questions. If Americans learned that a leader in another country was threatening reporters, we would be outraged. Yet here it is. Right here. Right now. Kelly went on what Fox says was a planned vacation and Trump suggested he may have been the cause. What kind of candidate takes credit for bullying the media?

Then Trump allowed Univision reporter Jorge Ramos to be ejected from a press conference for asking questions about immigration without being called upon. Ramos was later readmitted and permitted to ask about immigration, during which he said Trump could still deport immigrants compassionately. “I have a bigger heart than you do,” Trump replied. Trump’s non-specific answer to the question ended with a personal insult directed at the reporter. Trump’s vendetta against the press extended to the Des Moines Register. When the paper issued an editorial calling for Trump to withdraw from the campaign, he refused to give the paper’s reporters credentials to attend his campaign event in Iowa in July. He also called the paper “failing” and “very dishonest.” Other journalists he thinks have treated him harshly he refers to as “losers” or unintelligent, as if the definition of lack of intelligence is to not agree with him.

[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA's all-time leading scorer and a former cultural ambassador for the United States]