New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg at Midtown Comics. Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

Presidential candidate, billionaire businessman and philanthropist, and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a campaign of unprecedented ad spending. Making an argument that many consider to be self-serving but does resonate with AOC, Bloomberg argues that the clock is ticking and Democrats have left Trump virtually unchecked in key states that will determine the 2020 presidential election.

We are more familiar than most with the Bloomberg campaign, having followed the former mayor’s efforts in gun safety and against America’s anti-climate change practices for years. We are also in touch with the Bloomberg campaign hierarchy.

This ad is designed to confront the Trump unchallenged issue head-on by ordinary citizens across America. Our own response was a very positive one, and today’s New York Times also gives quality coverage to the dangers Democrats face in not taking a Trump 2020 win seriously enough.

“All this effort and all this money and none of it goes to help the one election that really matters?” asks a man from Michigan in one new Bloomberg campaign ad, referring to the spending in the Democratic primary. The campaign plans to run the ad online in Super Tuesday primary states.

“I’ve been telling anyone who will listen, Trump is winning,” said Kevin Sheekey, the campaign manager for Mr. Bloomberg, who earlier this month sat down with Jonathan Capehart at The Washington Post.

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page broke her silence over the weekend, speaking to The Daily Beast, after Trump’s melodramatic mocking of her at a recent political rally.

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page has always maintained that the anti-Trump text messages surfaced between her and FBI agent Peter Strozk on their government phones had no effect on her work handling the Hillary Clinton email case and the Russia investigation.

Justice Department Report Expected to Exonerate Page Fully

A report from the Justice Department due out on December 9 is expected to exonerate Lisa Page fully in her pre-election investigations of Clinton emails and the Russia probe. In spite of Trump’s insistence that the indiscreet texts confirmed his argument that Page is a member of the deep state working to elect Clinton, there is apparently no evidence to support that case. A prior inspector general’s report agreed that the texts “cast a cloud” over Page’s role in the investigation but, after further investigation, also confirmed that Page ran the inquiry by the book.

Trump has added Page to his long list of women he loves to demean. In October 2019, at a political rally in Minneapolis, Trump disgraced himself fully in his mockery of the two FBI officials.

After watching Trump mock her, having a demeaning, fake orgasm on national television, Page decided to break her silence in a Daily Beast interview with Molly Jong-Fast.

“I had stayed quiet for years hoping it would fade away, but instead it got worse,” she says. “It had been so hard not to defend myself, to let people who hate me control the narrative. I decided to take my power back.”

Speaking about her life as a frequent Trump target, Page tells The Daily Beast:

“It’s almost impossible to describe” what it’s like, she told me. “It’s like being punched in the gut. My heart drops to my stomach when I realize he has tweeted about me again. The president of the United States is calling me names to the entire world. He’s demeaning me and my career. It’s sickening.”

“But it’s also very intimidating because he’s still the president of the United States. And when the president accuses you of treason by name, despite the fact that I know there’s no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason, he’s still somebody in a position to actually do something about that. To try to further destroy my life. It never goes away or stops, even when he’s not publicly attacking me.”

Asked by Jong-Fast, daughter of feminist icon Erica Jong, if her day-to-day life is impacted by Trump, she responds: “I’m walking down the street or shopping and there’s somebody wearing Trump gear or a MAGA hat, I’ll walk the other way or try to put some distance between us because I’m not looking for conflict. Really, what I wanted most in this world is my life back.”

Jong-Fast’s interview is long and highly informative. Read it NOT behind the paywall at The Daily Beast.