Emails show Bloomberg wants to be Clinton’s secretary of state

By Aaron Short
NYPost.com
October 15, 2016

Secretary of State Bloomberg? It’s not unthinkable.

A confidant of Mike Bloomberg floated to a top Hillary Clinton adviser the idea of giving the former mayor the Cabinet post, according to a batch of e-mails released Saturday by WikiLeaks.

Clinton aide Neera Tanden asked Howard Wolfson — a current Bloomberg consultant and former deputy mayor — in a June 3, 2015, e-mail whether the former mayor was seriously considering a run for president.

Tanden had spotted a tweet by top Bloomberg strategist Kevin Sheekey citing a June 2 Post column by Michael Goodwin that revealed that New York Democrats had approached Bloomberg to challenge Clinton.

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