Elizabeth Warren Reminded The Debate Stage About Mike Bloomberg's Alleged Abortion Comments

Throughout the tenth Democratic primary debate on Tuesday (Feb. 25), Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former mayor and current billionaire Michael Bloomberg were caught in the next back-and-forth they've had while in a national debate. This time, Warren intricate her account of losing her teaching job if she was 21 years old because she was pregnant — and what that experience had to do with Bloomberg's alleged history as a boss.


"At least I did not have a boss who mentioned to me 'kill it' the way that Mayor Bloomberg alleged to have mentioned to one of his pregnant staff Warren mentioned, to booing in the audience. Bloomberg immediately denied the accusation, nevertheless any time moderator Gayle King asked what evidence Warren had, she answered: "Her words."


Warren was referring to a case in which one of Bloomberg's former saleswomen sued him and his organization for workplace discrimination immediately after she says Bloomberg instructed her to abort her pregnancy. Bloomberg denied the allegation at the time and again on stage on Tuesday, and he reached a confidential settlement with the saleswoman, according to The Washington Post. The Post also interviewed David Zielenziger, a former Bloomberg employee who mentioned he witnessed the conversation and that it was "outrageous."

"I remember she had been telling some of her girlfriends that she was pregnant," Zielenziger instructed them Post. "And Mike came out and I remember he mentioned, ‘Are you going to kill it?’ And that stopped everything. And I couldn’t believe it."

This isn't the opening time Warren and Bloomberg have gone toe-to-toe: Earlier in the debate, she called him out for giving funding to Republican candidates in past elections.

"Who funded Lindsey Graham's campaign for re-election last time? It was Mayor Bloomberg. And that's not the only right-wing Senator that Mayor Bloomberg has funded," Warren mentioned. "In 2016, he dumped $12 million into Pennsylvania's senate race to help re-elect an anti-choice right-wing Republican senator and I just desire to mention, the woman challenger was terrific; she lost by a solitary point. In 2012, he scooped in attempt to defend another Republican senator against a woman challenger. It didn't work, although he tried hard."

She was that challenger.