Dumb, Dumb Donald. He could have gone all the way – and he blew it. And what’s so sad – the pundits don’t get it …yet. The Presidential election is Goldman Sachs vs. Goldman Sachs…. Goldman Sachs just doesn’t want to leave the White House.
Days after Trump’s decisive primary win in Indiana, his campaign indicated that it was growing. Team Trump has added a finance chair: Steven Mnuchin, the founder of a private equity firm that received a government-funded jackpot after the 2008 housing collapse.
Mnuchin, a former partner at Goldman Sachs, heads up Dune Capital. The investment firm put together a holding company in 2008 — attracting investors like J.C. Flowers, a George Soros investment fund and Paulson & Co. — that then bought up $32 billion worth of IndyMac bank assets for the cut-rate price of $13.9 billion. Renaming the bank OneWest, Mnuchin’s consortium invested $1.3 billion and got the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to assume responsibility for the majority of future losses. The FDIC lost an estimated $8.5 billion to $9.4 billion in the deal — while the holding company made money with the taxpayer-subsidized set-up.
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Deadly Clear 
Yup, Goldman vs. Goldman.. Wall St. vs. Wall St. It’s pitiful. Like I said, this will be a very nasty and ugly race and lots of CPAC and dark money donors airing Presidential attack ads. I am certainly leaning more on write in candidate in November. I will vote with my conscience.