Trump vs. Bloomberg, more than a Twitter battle
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Feb 14, 2020
3 minutes
President Donald Trump could hardly contain his glee.
"WOW, BLOOMBERG IS A TOTAL RACIST!" he tweeted in all caps to his millions of followers early Tuesday, the day of the New Hampshire presidential primary.
The tweet leaked audio from 2015 in which Michael Bloomberg, former New York mayor and current Democratic rival for Trump's job, strongly defended the city's stop-and-frisk policing policy.
Before it was quickly taken down, the clip was originally posted by a liberal blogger on Monday night,
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