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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and the Trump presidency.

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offers. I'm joined today by Jacob Halbrun who is editor of the national interest and a columnist

for Spectator USA and we're going to be talking about Michael interest and a columnist for Spectator USA,

and we're going to be talking about Michael Bloomberg

and a little bit about impeachment.

Jacob, I know you really want to talk about impeachment,

but I want to ask you about your upcoming column,

which I've read, but it hasn't been published yet,

on Michael Bloomberg,

sort of flirting with throwing his hat into the race for the presidential election in 2020.

This is another billionaire entering the race, and you seem amused by this idea of billionaires versus billionaires as the future of democracy.

Freddie, it's clearly springtime for billionaires.

We have not only Bloomberg, but also Tom Steyer, running for the Democratic nomination.

And then on the Republican side, you have an ostensible billionaire in the form of Donald J. Trump.

This is, of course, arousing heart palpitations in the Democratic Party, which,

unlike the Republican Party, professes not to be as comfortable with the plutocrats that are

dotting the American, indeed the international landscape these days.

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