The Bloomberg LBO

In an interview with Maria Bartiromo, Steve Brannon said something provocative about the Michael Bloomberg candidacy. Here’s some dialog about Bloomberg quoted in an American Thinker column.

BARTIROMO: You don't think he wants to be president?
BANNON: I think he — look, he knows he's not going to beat Donald Trump. He knows he's not going to win the nomination.
BARTIROMO: You said he wants to be something else, not...
(CROSSTALK)
BANNON: He's — he's basically doing a leveraged buyout of the Democratic Party, is what he's doing.
He's an LBO of the Democratic Party to control the Democratic Party to select who their candidate is going to be and use his capital, OK, and organization and technology to defeat Trump.

Later in the interview Bannon suggests Hillary may be who Bloomberg wants as the 2020 candidate, and that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the socialist future both Brannon and Bloomberg, for different reasons, hope to avoid.