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In response to
"Bloomberg statement -- (link)"
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ty97
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ty, from B2, I'm actually very agnostic on Bloomberg. I don't know enough about his positions on a lot of issues. But this is very different than
Posted by
pmb (aka pmb)
Feb 11 '20, 09:21
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the access Hollywood tapes. Trump's tape confirmed assaulting women. Bloomberg's gives his justification behind a public policy. It maybe uses somewhat more blunt (though not much) language in describing it, but that's always been the justification. It's not letting out some insidious secret. I don't agree (and never have agreed) with the policy, but it's not new news. I'm sure there are other tapes of him describing the same thing in somewhat less blunt language. I just don't see this as in the same sphere. It is and always has been a knock against him (and deservedly so), but I'm pretty confident it would not be part of his playbook going forward (the same way I don't think Harris' or Klobuchar's more aggressive positions as prosecutors would define them now as president).
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