Bloomberg Won’t Run for President

Michael Bloomberg, “who for months quietly laid the groundwork to run for president as an independent, will not enter the 2016 campaign,” the New York Times reports, “citing his fear that a three-way race could lead to the election of a candidate who would imperil the security and stability of the United States: Donald Trump.”

Bloomberg said that Trump has run “the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign I can remember, preying on people’s prejudices and fears.”

He added that he was alarmed by Trump’s threats to bar Muslim immigrants from entering the country and to initiate trade wars against China and Japan, and he was disturbed by Trump’s “feigning ignorance of David Duke.”