Bern’s int’l money jab

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders took aim Sunday at foreign donations made to the Clinton Foundation, a rare dig at rival Hillary Clinton’s nonpolitical affairs.

“Do I have a problem with that? Yeah, I do,” Sanders told CNN’s “State of the Union” about donations made to the private charity from countries such as Saudi Arabia.

The Vermont senator said he’s concerned “a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments — many governments which are dictatorships.”

“You don’t have a lot of civil liberties or democratic rights in Saudi Arabia,” he continued. “You don’t have a lot of respect there for opposition points of view, for gay rights, for women’s rights.”

Sanders has typically preferred to stick to policy issues — such as breaking up big banks and reforming campaign finance — and has repeatedly declined to make a campaign issue out of Clinton’s private e-mail server.

In April 2015, as he launched his bid for the White House, he called the Clinton Foundation donations “a serious problem” in an interview with ABC, but hadn’t made it a campaign issue in more than a year, until Sunday.

Instead, his criticism of Clinton’s cash has centered on her paid speeches to bankers and her donations from super PACs.

But now he’s pinning his presidential hopes on the California primary on Tuesday and didn’t avoid calling out Clinton on the foreign cash.

“Do you think it creates an appearance of a conflict of interest?” CNN host Jake Tapper pressed.

“Yeah, I do,” Sanders replied.

Meanwhile, a victory in the Puerto Rico primary Sunday left Clinton on the verge of history. She easily won the US Virgin Islands caucus on Saturday, too.

On the cusp of clinching the Democratic nomination, Clinton will have to wait until Tuesday — when voters in six states head to the polls with 694 total delegates at stake — to celebrate her victory.

She has already planned a primary-night party in Brooklyn, despite remaining in a statistical tie with Sanders in delegate-rich California.