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Bloomberg News says "don't investigate Bloomberg", a good decision? 6:26
(CNN) - Michael Bloomberg would vote to condemn President Donald Trump if he were a senator at the political trial, the former New York mayor said in an interview issued Monday.
"It would be much better to let voters decide who the president is in this country," the Democratic presidential candidate said in an interview on the NBC show's Today Show.
"He would have to pass saliva two or three times, but he would vote to condemn him because there is much evidence that he acted inappropriately."
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Bloomberg said earlier that the 2020 elections are a "better forum" to remove President Donald Trump from office, than a formal investigation of political trial. In September, Bloomberg told CNN's Kate Bolduan that he was worried that the impeachment process "would become partisan" and that "we don't need more partisanship."
Trump was indicted by the House last month on charges of abuse of power and for obstructing Congress in his plan to pressure Ukraine for political favors. The president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, handed the articles to the Senate last Thursday, starting a political trial that will culminate in a final vote that will force the 100 senators, including four presidential candidates, to make a decision on whether Trump is removed from office.
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Billionaire Bloomberg has placed television ads worth millions of dollars across the country to boost his late entry into the 2020 presidential campaign. He has already spent $ 235 million of his own money on television, radio and digital advertising, more than that the rest of the Democratic candidates, excluding their competitor and fellow billionaire Tom Steyer, have spent together. Bloomberg self-finances his campaign.
“I don't have this burning desire to be president of the United States since the day I was born. What I have is the desire to do something for the country ... because I have children and I want to leave them with a better world, ”Bloomberg said in his interview with NBC.
David Wright of CNN contributed to this report.
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