Boris Johnson win boosts Donald Trump and, yes, Mike Bloomberg
The election results in Britain are great news for Michael Bloomberg and, for different reasons, Donald Trump and champions of nationalism everywhere. Published December 12, 2019
Ralph Z. Hallow, the chief political correspondent of commentary, served on the Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Washington Times editorial boards, was Ford Foundation Fellow in Urban Journalism at Northwestern University, resident at Columbia University Editorial-Page Editors Seminar and has filed from Berlin, Bonn, London, Paris, Geneva, Vienna, Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Belgrade, Bucharest, Panama and Guatemala.
The election results in Britain are great news for Michael Bloomberg and, for different reasons, Donald Trump and champions of nationalism everywhere. Published December 12, 2019
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