Hank Paulson: Trump Won't Be President

"I don't think we're going to see a President Trump," said former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry "Hank" Paulson while commenting on the 2016 presidential race on Bloomberg.

Answering a question of whether Trump as president would be a useful ingredient to that long-term stability, Paulson stated, "Listen, you know the answer to that as well as I do, and I don't think we're going to see a President Trump."

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He continued, "I'm seeing things today that I never expected to see from either party. Never expected to see, and things that are very disappointing and disturbing to me, the level of the discourse, and I think what we have is, when you have the American people as angry as they are, that this is ­­this makes them ripe for populism."

"I think what we're seeing is rooted in that populism, so, but I'm not going to make a prediction on who our president's going to be. But I will stick my neck way out and say, I don't think it's going to be Donald Trump," Paulson added.

Image Credit: By Evan Guest - Donald Trump in Muscatine, Iowa, CC BY 2.0, WikiMedia

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