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Bloomberg seeks to make stop-and-frisk controversy about Trump
NBC "News" ^ | February 12, 2020 | By Stephanie Ruhle, Josh Lederman and Maura Barrett

Posted on 02/12/2020 10:50:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is working to bounce back from newly unearthed comments he made about crime in minority neighborhoods by casting the controversy as a cynical attempt by President Donald Trump to blunt his momentum in the presidential race.

A day after an audio clip emerged of Bloomberg bluntly defending the stop-and-frisk policy he oversaw as mayor, Bloomberg’s campaign manager, Kevin Sheekey, sought to portray it as an indication Trump is worried about Bloomberg’s rise and the prospect of running against him in the general election. Trump on Tuesday tweeted the clip and called Bloomberg a “total racist,” although he later deleted the tweet.

“When you threaten Trump, you become a target,” Sheekey said in an interview. “Mike was mayor for 12 years and fought for all New Yorkers, but he also knows you don’t back down from a bully and we are in a war to remove him from office.”

Although the audio clip from a 2015 speech by Bloomberg was discovered and published by a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., it caught fire on social media just as voters in New Hampshire were going to the polls Tuesday in large part due to amplification by the president and his son, Donald Trump Jr., who called Bloomberg’s comments “shocking by any reasonable standard of today.”

That’s despite Trump's long-held support for stop-and-frisk policing policies.

Still, Bloomberg campaign officials said they were not surprised that they were getting additional heat and stepped-up scrutiny from both his Democratic and Republican rivals as the former mayor surges in national polls, where he’s currently one poll away from qualifying for next week’s Democratic debate.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2020

1 posted on 02/12/2020 10:50:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

[That’s despite Trump’s long-held support for stop-and-frisk policing policies. ]


While that’s true, Trump’s not running for the Democratic nomination.


2 posted on 02/12/2020 10:53:00 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
He obviously understands the DNC and PMS.

Partisan Media Shills update.


3 posted on 02/12/2020 10:53:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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It won’t work.


4 posted on 02/12/2020 10:53:26 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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Bloomberg's campaign manager, Kevin Sheekey, sought to portray it as an indication Trump is worried about Bloomberg's rise... Although the audio clip from a 2015 speech by Bloomberg was discovered and published by a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders...

5 posted on 02/12/2020 10:56:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump wasn’t President or even a candidate when Bloomberg said this.
Obama was President.


6 posted on 02/12/2020 10:59:20 AM PST by Zathras
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PIPSQUEAK ALERT!
7 posted on 02/12/2020 11:00:06 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“He (Trump) MADE me do it.”

That’s ridiculous. And so is the stop and frisk controversy. New York needed it, and what Bloomberg said is more law and order than the tune he’s singing now when he’s out pandering for votes.


8 posted on 02/12/2020 11:02:01 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

From a Leftist’s point of view, isn’t support for ‘Stop and Frisk’ a bullying tactic?

Good luck with this spin Doomberger. Odds are 99 to 1.


9 posted on 02/12/2020 11:03:05 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: Zhang Fei

I would rule out the possibility. Trump makes a lot of “smart” people say really stupid things. He has that power.


10 posted on 02/12/2020 11:08:52 AM PST by edwinland
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To: Zathras

Obviously, Trump used his time machine to go back and make Bloomberg say it.


11 posted on 02/12/2020 11:27:29 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well, we know the corrupt press will help Bloomberg because the press is owned by democrats who feed them the 'good stories'....

When the coin of the realm is information, bribes are made in insider information. The press will do what they're told or 'expected to do'... or they lose the great 'source' (it's really nothing more than opposition research and paid sources that the press agrees to pretend it's 'just a connected friend'...in their black book)

12 posted on 02/12/2020 11:44:22 AM PST by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)
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To: Zhang Fei

Is that Sam Donaldson on the right? I thought he was dead.


13 posted on 02/12/2020 12:04:57 PM PST by Atlantan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bloomberg was right but these days, right is wrong and night is day. Watching him fall all over himself apologizing is disgusting.


14 posted on 02/12/2020 12:26:04 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Atlantan

[Is that Sam Donaldson on the right? I thought he was dead.]


So did I. But he’s apparently alive and kicking. Looks pretty good for 85, or whatever age he was in that pic. I want to say botox, but the bags under the eyes indicate otherwise.


15 posted on 02/12/2020 12:29:37 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: GOPJ

“We know the corrupt press will help Bloomberg.”

The Wall Street Journal has an editorial today going “tsk tsk” - towards Trump - and makes it seem as if this is more about Trump than Bloomberg.

I thought Trump’s tweet was funny.


16 posted on 02/12/2020 12:31:23 PM PST by RAldrich
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The issue wasn’t the stop-and-frisk policies (that Bloomberg has now denounced and disowned), it was the WAY that Bloomberg talked about throwing minorities up against the wall and scaring them into not carrying their guns.

His focus wasn’t on making things safer, it was intimidating minorities who had sometimes illegal guns, possibly for protection from the criminals that Bloomberg insists need to be taken care of by police, not citizens protecting themselves.


17 posted on 02/12/2020 3:08:18 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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