President Trump deleted a tweet calling presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg a “total racist.” Trump posted, then deleted, a tweet along with audio of Bloomberg discussing New York’s “stop-and-frisk” policy that reduced violent crimes in his city.
In the war of billionaires, Trump tweeted, then deleted: “WOW, BLOOMBERG IS A TOTAL RACIST!”, according to published reports.
Trump rarely ever deletes a tweet. Some political analysts say it is an indication that someone in his inner circle warned him that he went too far.
In a statement to The Wrap, the former New York mayor said, “President Trump’s deleted tweet is the latest example of his endless efforts to divide Americans. I inherited the police practice of stop-and-frisk, and as part of our effort to stop gun violence it was overused. By the time I left office, I cut it back by 95%, but I should’ve done it faster and sooner.”
In the audio linked to Trump’s tweet, Bloomberg praised the policy and suggested that the majority of the people who were stopped by police were white. He hinted that the perpetrators of violent gun crimes were not white.
“95 percent of your murders, murderers and murder victims, fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops: They are male, minorities 16 to 25. That’s true in New York. It’s true in virtually every city.”
Bloomberg apologized in his statement to The Wrap. “I regret that and I have apologized. I have taken responsibility for taking too long to understand the impact it had on Black and Latino communities.”
But Black Twitter noted that Bloomberg, at age 77, is too old to change his racist thought process, now that he is running for president.
Trump’s re-election campaign manager, Brad Perscale, also tweeted #BloombergIsaRacist. Perscale did not delete his tweet.
All the money in the world can’t undo this
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