08-07-2016, 05:26 PM
Who are Trump's financiers? This is funny, from Politico:
Quote:Trump’s new economic team leans heavily on Wall Street investors and hedge-fund managers, despite railing against them during the early parts of his presidential campaign. “The hedge fund guys didn't build this country. These are guys that shift paper around. And they get lucky," Trump said last year on CBS’s Face the Nation. "Look, they're energetic. They're very smart. But a lot of them, it's, like, they're paper pushers. They make a fortune. They pay no tax. It's ridiculous, okay?"Trump’s economic advisers are also his biggest donors - POLITICO
“He is following the path he has said was corrupt: Raising large sums of money and then giving donors special access,” said Trevor Potter, the president of the Campaign Legal Center and former chair of the Federal Election Commission. Steve Deace, an influential conservative activist in Iowa and anti-Trump radio host, said he was not surprised that Trump was granting his biggest donors titles and insider access. But he was still angry. “It is complete and total hypocrisy,” Deace said. “He got a lot of mileage out of taking advantage of a lot of low information voters who are rightfully frustrated that government left them behind,” Deace said of Trump’s claims during the primary that he was a self-funding billionaire who could not be bought. “They were an easy mark for a P.T. Barnum con man.” Trump’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.