Bloomberg Says Assassination Label ‘Outrageous’: Campaign Update
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Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said it was “outrageous” for rival Bernie Sanders to say the killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was an “assassination” because the U.S. action was justified.
“This is a guy who had an awful lot of American blood on his hands,” Bloomberg said of Soleimani when asked about Sanders’s characterization during a campaign stop Friday in North Carolina. “We have a right and an obligation, I think, to go after him, and we did.”
Asked what the proper way to speak about Soleimani’s death was, Bloomberg said, “get a dictionary and take your pick. The guy killed a bunch of Americans and we’re going to worry about the language? I don’t think so.” Bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News.