Paulson doesn’t expect a Trump presidency

Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday that doesn’t think Donald Trump will win the race for the White House.

Paulson, who played a leading role in the creation of the taxpayer rescue during the 2008 financial crisis, said he won’t make a prediction on who will win the election in November but that it won’t be the Republican front-runner and billionaire businessman.

{mosads}”I will stick my neck way out and say, I don’t think it’s going to be Donald Trump,” Paulson said on Bloomberg<GO>.

Paulson added that he is surprised by the behavior of both Democrats and Republicans in their campaigns.

“I’m seeing things today that I never expected to see from either party,” he said.

“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, and 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.”