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Politico: Trump Turns To CEOs

Did you hear the news?

The 2016 election wasn’t about overthrowing the failed political establishment. Instead, it was about empowering Jared Kushner and moderate New York business leaders:

“Wall Street titan Stephen Schwarzman has recently taken on a new, informal job: counselor to the president.

The CEO of Blackstone Group, who has known Trump for years, has become so close to the president that the two sometimes talk several times a week, covering everything from Chinese trade to tax policy to immigration.

White House and New York business officials say Schwarzman was critical to Trump keeping the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as the Dreamers program, with Trump making the decision after a call with the hedge fund billionaire. The two also recently chatted at Mar-a-Lago about a possible reorganization of the White House, two people familiar with the meeting say, though the conversation didn’t include specific names.

Schwarzman’s growing influence in Trump’s circle is welcome news to New York business leaders and moderate Republicans, who want the president to abandon his nationalist positions and embrace a more nonideological White House amid lagging poll ratings and infighting dominating the West Wing. …”

I’m pretty sure all the populists and nationalists who supported Trump in the 2016 election didn’t imagine Stephen Schwarzman or Gary Cohn having this much influence. In fact, quite a few of those people voted for Trump in the primaries and the general election precisely because they believed he wasn’t a puppet of those people like, you know, Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton.

In hindsight, it seems Lyin’ Ted was right about Trump having New York values.

Hunter Wallace
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Hunter Wallace is the founder and editor of OccidentalDissent.com

10 Comments

    • It is what it is. I put my hope in Trump’s promise to prevent Hillary’s cabal of globalists from running things. But no worries. Trump may think he’s too slick by half, but by turning his back on the base who brought him to the White House, he’ll be twisting in the wind in no time. He’ll be lucky to finish out his first and only term without being impeached.

      In any case, there won’t be a snowflake’s chance in hell of a second term. All those globalists oohing and cooing right now will turn on him in a New York minute. After all, they already had Hillary in their back pocket, they have several more bought and paid for whores to execute their agenda. WTF do they need him for?

      So, my days of getting heartburn over Trump’s treachery are over. There is no need for any White Nationalist uprising to assassinate him or depose him. All we have to do is sit on our hands and do nothing when the Left realizes they need to oppose his endless wars for Israel and raise hell over all these bankers and Wall Street shitheads are running his administration.

      I would love to see the expression on Trump’s face when the Republicucks and the Leftards combine forces to get rid of him, he rents and auditorium to fire up his base, and absolutely NO one shows up to listen to his bullshit. But I’ll be too damned busy to care. Right now, I see his mug on the television, I change the damned channel. He has nothing to say that interests me.

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