“While no final decision [on running for president] has been made, his aides have been working on a fallback that only a man worth $40 billion can afford. Bloomberg is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into a data-centric political operation designed to ensure one goal: crush Donald Trump.” Michael Bloomberg’s Secret Plans to Take Down Trump.

+ “If there is anybody who has changed this city, it is Donald Trump. He really has done an amazing thing, and this is another part of it.” … “You have been a great mayor. You really have. I mean, this guy is fantastic.” That was then. This is now. WaPo: How the relationship between Trump and Bloomberg went into a tailspin.