Not that he ever wanted to, but here’s Newt Gingrich admitting what many of us already knew regarding Donald Trump’s fake populism.
Politico reports:
President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington of corruption, but now that he’s preparing to move into the White House, Newt Gingrich said the Manhattan real estate mogul is looking to distance himself from that message.
“I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore,” the former House Speaker and close Trump adviser said of the “drain the swamp” message in an NPR interview published Wednesday morning.
Trump’s Cabinet and other high-level appointments seem to have deviated somewhat from his “drain the swamp” message. After attacking Democrat Hillary Clinton regularly throughout the campaign for being too close to Wall Street banks, Trump has put three former Goldman Sachs executives in prominent White House positions, including Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary, Steve Bannon as chief White House strategist and Gary Cohn as the director of the National Economic Council.
As I highlighted in the recent post, The Election Never Ended:
As Anthony Scaramucci, a hedge fund manager and top adviser to Trump, as well as a former Goldman Sachs banker himself, put it Thursday: “I think the cabal against the bankers is over.”
Indeed, as we all know, U.S. government economic policy has been essentially handed over to Goldman Sachs during this transition period. Must be a reward for its most recent settlement for rigging yet another market.
Reuters reports:
Goldman Sachs Group Inc will pay a $120 million penalty to resolve civil charges that it attempted to manipulate a global benchmark for interest rate products known on Wall Street as “ISDAFIX,” U.S. derivatives regulators said Wednesday.
The case against Goldman Sachs, brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was the latest in a series of broad investigations into manipulation by big banks of a variety of global benchmark rates.
To date, the CFTC has imposed penalties of over $5.2 billion stemming from these probes, which include Libor and Euribor, foreign exchange benchmarks, and the U.S. Dollar International Swaps and Derivatives Association Fix, or USD ISDAFIX.
A number of banks have also resolved parallel criminal charges related to the manipulation of various global benchmarks.
Goldman Sachs, which was also accused by the CFTC of making false reports on the benchmark rate, will settle the case without admitting or denying the charges.
Penalties don’t’t change the behavior of white collar criminals. Jail sentences would, but we don’t see any of that when it comes to bank execs.
On the other hand…
John Gotti went to prison after fixing construction costs in New York. Lloyd Blankfein went to cocktail parties after fixing swaps. pic.twitter.com/inlC4Fm66w
— Donald van Deventer (@dvandeventer) December 21, 2016
Thanks for playin’ America.
For related articles, see:
Interview with The Corbett Report – Trump Fills the Swamp With Steven Mnuchin
Draining the Swamp? Wall Street is Already Loving Donald Trump
Trump Fills the Swamp with Elaine Chao (Mitch McConnell’s Wife) for Transportation Secretary
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Trump = Putin’s useful idiot + China’s perpetual serf-debtor
Trump was SELECTED to become the next president simply to preside over the BANKRUPTCY OF THE UNITED STATES.
End of story
YOU CAN DO ANYTHING IF YOU HAVE MONEY
Grab Them By The Pussy.
The lyrics are by Donald J. Trump
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I admit it
I did try and fuck her
She was married
Ooh, I moved on her
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November 8, 2016
Trump mentor Roy Cohn a pedophile protector who blackmailed his protégé at Plaza Hotel ‘blue suite’?
The bullish New York attorney Roy Cohn was the quintessential false-opposition operative working under Senator Joseph McCarthy. He prosecuted and persecuted communists, as part of the establishment-controlled red scare, as well as homosexuals, despite being a homosexual himself. But how he was so successful, achieving a huge amount of federal indictments as McCarthy’s aide and attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice was likely due to a dirty, dark secret of his: sexual blackmail, especially of the pedophile kind. Biographer Burton Hersh reveals about Cohn,
“…When New York attorney John Klotz began to investigate Roy Cohn on behalf of a client…declassified New York government files and spadework by a private detective substantiated the allegation that there was indeed a ‘blue suite’ at the Plaza, Suite 233. ‘Roy Cohn was providing protection,’ Klotz discovered. ‘There were a bunch of pedophiles involved. That’s where Cohn got his power from—blackmail.’”[i]
[i] Hersh, Burton, Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-off Between The Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America, Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, 2007, pg. 88
SANTA IS A MYTH AND SO IS TRUMP!
Will Trump protect real swamps too?
he may not want to drain the swamp but the “CREATOR” of it all , who created it all , there fore owns it all is more than willing to drain the swamp , so look out ! , there is coming a serious ” asskicking ” for this cesspool of a nation and every one in this country will be humbled . ( take that to the bank )
Great article. Thanks for sharing here. Others are still delusional that Trump will save the day. I voted for Trump because he is not Krooket Killary and not starting the war with Russia. As Julian Assange said one has only choice between with Diarrhea and Cholera. Not much a choice here. However, we will be ended up with gigantic WWIII with China and of course Russia because of trade war and among other things. Cycle of wars are inevitable and crisis on governments will only exacerbate things. God save this country!