Friday, December 2, 2016

Zaid Jilani — Hillary Clinton’s “Corrupt Establishment” Is Now Advising Donald Trump


About face!
“The establishment,” Donald Trump famously said during his closing argument for the presidency, “has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.”
He described “a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.”
He asked the country to be “brave enough to vote out this corrupt establishment.”
Now, less than four weeks after riding that line to victory, he formally invited the establishment into his administration.
On Friday, Trump announced the creation of a “Strategic and Policy Forum” that will serve to advise him on domestic economic matters. The list of advisers is a who’s-who of corporate elites.
He’s not the only one making a major turnaround; many of them had previously and enthusiastically supported his Democratic opponent.
The chairman of the forum is Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO of the Blackstone Group, a private equity and investment banking giant.…
Another member of the new advisory group is Larry Fink. Fink is the chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm....
Here is the full list:

2 comments:

Peter Pan said...

Is it possible that Trump will follow in the steps of Haitian ruler Jean-Jacques Dessalines?

Noah Way said...

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Same as the other boss we were 'allowed' to select.

The military industrial complex owns them all.