But if you could see him with his eyes
Goldman Sachs. Clinton’s $200k fees for chatting to them over dinner probably cost her a good few votes, and certainly gave Donnie from Queens useful talking points, but now…well now is now, and all is transformed.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name a top Goldman Sachs executive, Gary Cohn, to lead the National Economic Council, handing the Wall Street veteran significant sway over his administration’s economic policy.
The council includes the heads of various departments and agencies and works within the administration to coordinate economic policy. As director, Cohn would be in position to advise Trump as he attempts to fulfill some of his chief campaign promises, including lowering corporate taxes and rethinking U.S. trade policy.
And generally making life better for rich people and worse for poor people. Yay populism!
In Cohn, Trump would once again be picking a veteran of a New York investment bank that he repeatedly denounced during the campaign. During the campaign Trump argued that Goldman held “total control” over both Democrat Hillary Clinton and GOP rival Ted Cruz and he even released a television ad that flashed an image of Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein and warned of a “global power structure” that was robbing American workers.
That was the ad that was packed with anti-Semitic tropes; it flashed an image of Blankfein along with images of a lot of other Jews, because Jews. But now is now, and all is transformed.
But Trump has relied on several Goldman alums for key positions, so far. Steven Mnuchin, a 17-year veteran of the bank, is nominated to be the next Treasury secretary, and Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, worked on mergers and acquisition deals for Goldman Sachs. Hedge fund manger Anthony Scaramucci began his career at the New York bank and has emerged as one of Trump’s closest advisers on his presidential transition.
We loves the bankers, precious. We just doesn’t say so during the campaign.
I wonder how much Trump is into Goldman Sachs for financing. Funny how JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citi executives aren’t feeling the love.
But…Hillary was corrupt! She was crooked! That’s all you need to know, don’t look any deeper, just say it after me, repeat after me…Crooked Hillary. Crooked Hillary. Crooked Hillary. See how easy it is? No one used the nickname Crooked Donald, ergo, he is not crooked, and he can put Goldman-Sachs bankers in his administration without anyone needing to worry…he’s Making America Great Again, so why are you constantly on his case?
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Props on the Cabaret reference, Ophelia.