Newly minted presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg won’t talk about President Donald Trump’s globe-trotting, headline-grabbing personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani for a very specific reason — he’s also the former mayor of New York.
Giuliani is at the center of Trump’s pressure campaign against Ukraine, and, as a result, at the center of the impeachment probe against Trump.
But in an interview that aired Friday, Bloomberg said he wouldn’t talk about Giuliani, citing a no-comment policy about his fellow Big Apple mayors that he’s followed “religiously.”
“I made a commitment when I left office on December 31st, 2013, that I would not talk about my predecessor or my successor, publicly or privately,” he told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle. “I have followed that religiously for the last six years, whatever it’s been, and I’m going to continue, so I can’t help you.”
Bloomberg said he’d only talked to Giuliani in recent years at the 9/11 memorial in New York City, at the annual commemoration when victims’ names are read.
“We’ve shaken hands, ‘Hi, how are you?’ ‘Fine, how are you?’ That’s it,’” he said.
Bloomberg says that since leaving office he's "religiously" followed a policy of not talking about other New York City mayors, including the man at the middle of Donald Trump's impeachment. pic.twitter.com/XnKf73ZkLK
— Matt Shuham (@mattshuham) December 20, 2019
Ummmm… No. Just. No. One thing for Presidents to be delicate about their successors, because of the potential to undermine the office.
But no comment on your predecessor mayor??? What’s next, “I have no comments on my predecessor as dog-catcher, due to the dog-catcher Cone of Silence”…
Tone deaf.
Don’t waste any more of your money on your presidential run, Bloomberg. Your staff and pollsters won’t tell you, but you’re done.
Incredibly weak sauce.
Bloomberg just killed his own vanity campaign.
Newly minted presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg won’t talk about President Donald Trump’s globe-trotting, headline-grabbing personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani for a very specific reason — he’s also the former mayor of New York.
Utterly disqualifying.
The Republic (literally) faces a Constitutional crisis, and this shrinking violet defers to comity?
The party should call out Bloomberg publicly on this self-own.
He can shove his campaign and his selfish personal need for high-society deference.