Leaked audio: Mike Bloomberg trashes Obama and vows to "defend the banks" in Goldman Sachs speech

[melman]

Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg criticized former President Barack Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., while vowing to "defend the banks" at a private event held by Goldman Sachs in 2016, according to a leaked audio recording.

"These are my peeps," Bloomberg told the crowd of bankers at an event held at Yankee Stadium in June 2016. The audio was sent to CNN's K-File by a person claiming to be a longtime former Goldman Sachs employee. The Bloomberg campaign verified the audio and Goldman Sachs did not dispute that it was recorded at their event.

"The left is arising. The progressive movement is just as scary," he said. "Elizabeth Warren on one side. And whoever you want to pick on the Republicans on the right side?"
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Bloomberg also added that he believed 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney could have done a better job as president than Obama, adding that his 2012 endorsement of the president was "backhanded." Bloomberg did not endorse Obama in 2008 when he ran against the late Sen. John McCain.


"The second Obama election, I wrote a very backhanded endorsement of Obama," Bloomberg said. "Saying I thought he hadn't done the right thing ... hadn't been good at things that I think are important and Romney would be a better person at doing that. But Romney did not stick with the values that he had when he was governor of Massachusetts."

https://www.salon.com/2020/02/25/leaked-audio-mike-bloomberg-trashes-obama-and-vows-to-defend-the-banks-in-goldman-sachs-speech/

[PatSeg]

1. Whoa

That is pretty awful. Could put the final nail in Bloomberg's political coffin. This could be like Mitt Romney's 49% moment.

[Malmsy]

5. Yes!!

[jalan48]

3. Plutocrat Bloomberg's running to stop Warren and Sanders. That's it.

[thesquanderer]

6. And some people say that he ONLY ran as a Republican in NYC for convenience?

and p.s. tell that to the three Democrats he ran against.

[mgcgulfcoast]

7. Lets all agree Bloomy is a disgrace.