As Donald Trump finishes his campaign with a promise to break the control of Washington by political insiders, his transition team is preparing to hand his administration over to a cozy clique of corporate lobbyists and Republican power brokers.
“Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you the American people,” Trump says in his closing campaign advertisement, followed by flashing images of K Street, Wall Street, and Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein.
But the Trump transition team is a who’s who of influence peddlers, including: energy adviser Michael Catanzaro, a lobbyist for Koch Industries and the Walt Disney Company; adviser Eric Ueland, a Senate Republican staffer who previously lobbied for Goldman Sachs; and Transition General Counsel William Palatucci, an attorney in New Jersey whose lobbying firm represents Aetna and Verizon. Rick Holt, Christine Ciccone, Rich Bagger, and Mike Ferguson are among the other corporate lobbyists helping to manage the transition effort.
Presidential transition teams develop policy plans and come up with a list of more than 4,000 people an incoming president appoints, including White House jobs, cabinet secretaries, and lower level positions that oversee the military, agriculture, trade, and beyond.
Trump for America Inc., a nonprofit group chaired by Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., to oversee the Trump transition, has quietly moved ahead, meeting with interest groups and reaching out to lobbyists to plan a future Trump administration.
The group has held regular meetings at the Washington, D.C., offices of Baker Hostetler, a law and lobbying firm.
On Thursday, the group hosted a breakfast at Baker Hostetler attended by Microsoft’s Ed Ingle and Steve Hart, two lobbyists who, according to filings, have worked to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Other transition meetings have included briefings with the Financial Services Roundtable and the Investment Company Institute, two lobby groups that represent Wall Street interests, as well as with the BGR Group, a lobby firm that represents Saudi Arabia and the South Korean government.
Trump, of course, isn’t alone in relying on entrenched political insiders to shape his future administration. The Hillary Clinton transition team is led by Ken Salazar and Tom Donilon, two former Obama administration officials who now serve on the lobbying teams of major law firms. Though the Clinton campaign gained headlines for banning registered lobbyists from managing her transition, the distinction between registered and unregistered lobbying is largely a question of semantics.
Trump’s decision to embrace lobbyists while denouncing them on the campaign trail should come as no surprise to any seasoned observer.
The reality television mogul seized on distaste for big money politics as a potent campaign issue, denouncing the role of Super PACs during the Republican primaries. “I have disavowed all Super PACs,” Trump said, adding that he would oppose any support from lobbyists and other special interest groups. After shoring up the nomination, the candidate quickly reversed himself, not only raising cash from lobbyists but switching gears to aggressively embrace the same Super PAC strategies used by more traditional candidates. Several Trump staffers moved from his campaign to Super PACs supporting the Trump-Pence ticket.
Top photo: Donald Trump and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is leading the Trump-Pence transition effort.
Trump is an American “wanna be.” He lost the popular vote, never showed his taxes, pretended to know it all but won at the blame game. B/c of that he won the leadership game. Since most of his followers play the blame game as well, this is one big reason why our country will stay divided. We’ll never unite b/c most people use a person’s face to judge. Our country used to hang it’s hat on social mobility and immigration but now most hate immigrants and only whites deserve social mobility. Very few leaders talk about the poor – the middle class is as low as they’ll go. Our government is under the control of the oligarchs. Trump is more likely to blow the trumpet and reveal inside information that he shouldn’t publicly discuss. He can’t hold his tongue and his pride will cause him to rebell and not cooperate. The election showed it’s still a white dominated country. Obama says the country is strong and good but we still blame and complain. American leaders are still flying from the seat of their pants not knowing how to protect, teach or lead it’s followers. America is a mixture of people who can’t unite – this was foretold by the prophet Daniel. (Dan. 2:43-44) I was taught, if I treat other people good then good things will come back to me. My Dad said he raised me so that other people would like me. That’s real teaching.
One problem with that article (which I took the time to post in their comment section as well) – this “transition team” was NOT assembled by Trump.
The man in charge of Trump’s transition is Chris Christie. Whatever people are being selected at this point, are of his choosing.
And I fail to see how that somehow proves anything yet. We’re over two months away from a swearing in, for crissakes.
Relax.
Trump knows what he wants and it may very well be he asked Christie to include some players for the purposes of getting an education on how the corruption works
I started to write a response and then realized you have to be a troll. If what you wrote is actually genuine, how did you even end up at this site?
One problem with that article – this “transition team” was NOT assembled by Trump.
The man in charge of Trump’s transition is Chris Christie. Whatever people are being selected at this point, are of his choosing.
And I fail to see how that somehow proves anything yet. We’re over two months away from a swearing in, for crissakes.
Relax.
Trump knows what he wants and it may very well be he asked Christie to include some players for the purposes of getting an education on how the corruption works
We Americans have become accustomed to politicians bending us over to be fisted by Big Business and Wall Street money changers.
A con-artist in a baseball cap and a frumpy suit is still a con-artist.
USA: We punk ourselves!
If one wants to move leadership in a responsible direction, one must participate with that responsibility. I did not vote for Trump and our democracy is presently flawed, but he won and will be our president. Like all people, he is imperfect, and like all people, he will do his best job and be his best self when others come in communication from their best selves. The task facing those who don’t think that the people currently moving into positions of influence are the right people, is to figure out who truly would be and in the smartest and kindest way, ask Trump to include them. One, or we, must identify those persons really capable of moving things forward for all concerned, including being being graceful communicators and influencers with Trump. Persons who naturally are in their best human selves, who can stand comfortably with diverse people including President-elect Trump, and whose hearts are aligned with what is best for everyone. Future President Trump has said he wants to represent everyone – please consider working with that Trump. Work together with others to decide on and present other influencers to Trump who can move us forward in unification. Suggest approaches, programs that move us forward without diss’ing Trump or whatever you considered his leanings. Just as an example, as the only area in which maybe I feel informed enough to make a suggestion, in consideration of issues of policing and community safety including especially the safety of Black persons, given that Trump leans into ideas of law and order, I’d suggest we look to persons like Norm Stamper, former Seattle Police Chief, and retired Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown as go-to people for bridge builders and thinkers who can speak to next moves (and as listeners/consolidators to others) in moving forward and how we unify and find good directions forward in unity for safety and order, freedom and human and civil rights and well-being for all, and they ARE authorities with expert capacities for constructive thinking, influence and problem-solving. These police chiefs have their hearts deeply committed to the well-being of ALL persons and can speak truthfully about the costs of more militant approaches, and about the consequences in plummeting violence when policing moves in new directions with vision of being peaceful participation in community, being “with,” and not being positioned to be “against.”
When Obama took office, we dropped the ball on adequate participation. People who aren’t happy now have lower hopes for Trump and more keenly feel the discrepancy of where we seem to be from where we want to be. In that perhaps we find energy to participate more. We will lose our opportunities to move forward if we work only from “fight” and do not do the constructive work, including our own work of being for all, of unifying, and especially the work of HELPING the president-elect to represent and unify us all. This is not a time to obstruct, as we have complained about in others, but to shape constructive moves forward for all, to connect, to bridge, to find how one unifies and heals and excludes no one from the dance.
Well said. Wish I was there, but sadly I am not . . .will take some time.
Basically he’s doing what he does best: license his name out to the highest bidder.
sounds like an Obama adm.,or a Bush,or a Clinton before him….even a Bush sr…..
Correct. That’s the exact issue, here — Trump is the exact same as those who came before him. Oh how quickly a political “outsider” can feel right at home on the inside.
We get the president and the system we deserve.
A simple question which I don’t recall anyone asking Trump: How does he plan “American jobs” within the confines of a neo-liberal capitalist economic structure which his rich friends perpetuate?
AmeriKKKans elected an orange, retrograde, toxic puddle of congealed polluted DNA.
The US is proof that democracy is useless when over 50% of people are morons who refuse to read.
Ah, so the hypocrisy (already) begins.
good points but i would add that trump owes less people for less favors than hillary would have. she had an enormous “war chest” built from big money donors whereas those same donors either threw trump bread crumbs or shunned him entirely. he doesn’t seem like the forgiving type so that may linger in the air for a while.
but yeah, he’ll be a whore. just like clinton. anyone who didn’t vote for jill stein loses the right to complain in either case.
Well well… Plus ça change… People who voted for him will see a few years down the line how they’ve been swindled good time.
Do you really think a tax avoiding billionaire will be any good to clear the mess caused by… tax avoiding billionaires?
Just more of the same really.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. In the end, the corporations win and the people lose. Controlled opposition from the start.
people should of gone GREEN, maybe next time America will listen!!
Lee I am so sorry Hillary lost. You and your elite journalist buddies must be crying in your drinks today.
No Sorry, you and those of your ilk will be crying very soon.
yes, Trump should have chosen people who know nothing about government or DC to lead his transition team, especially given that he has never served in public office. Yep, that’s what I want as an American citizen. Tell me that you do have some common sense and that you just didn’t want a smear headline to add to your resume.
A third grader can pick a better, experienced, and non-conflicting transition team.
I love the Intercept, but this piece has multiple grammar and spelling problems, e.g. doubled up “the the” and “is” instead of “in”, etc. You need an editor that keeps your standards high, so people can respect your great work.
>>“Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you the American people,” Trump says in his closing campaign advertisement, followed by flashing images of K Street, Wall Street, and Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein.<<
LOL, this is priceless.
Too bad all these tons of irony are lost on the mass of trumpsters-dumbsters.
Wikileaks revealed emails indicating that the Democrats did EXACTLY the same thing for Obama’s administration.
Personally I am delighted to see Clinton’s political career ended. She’ll be fine, with her ill gotten millions. The Dems screwed up bad. Time to totally abandon them, and work together to stop Trump’s worst efforts to govern like a racist authoritarian, but support his efforts to negotiate in foreign diplomacy rather than put nukes on the table as Clinton vowed, and stop draconian “trade” deals like TPP.
Hmmm, yep, sounds like a Republican version of Obama through this lens. Although unfortunately I do not expect Trump will be as spineless a sellout. It will be an interesting 4 years. The Democratic Party will hopeful clean house but I would not hold my breath. Just another day in Democracy Inc.
Americans weren’t given any choices plain and simple. The next election if that’s what you want to call it won’t be any different.
We were given plenty of choices. The media makes it look like there are two when in reality there were 5 main party candidates and hundreds of others. Nobody wants to vote third party because they fear it won’t “count” or they are oblivious to their options due to relying on mass media.
You really have to go read and appreciate the monumental, and I’m going to say it” privileged” sweet salty tears of those clowns over at places like Kos and LGM.
They simply will never understand. They got precisely what they fought for in this election–maybe the most flawed (next to her husband) nominally “liberal” candidate in party history. Problem wasn’t that arguably Hillary Clinton would have tried to appease a winning electoral coalition, the problem is that way way way way way too many people who she needed to win didn’t believe her because she, like her husband, had a long long long long well documented history of throwing a significant majority of their possible “base” under the proverbial bus for the sake of the personal aggrandizement and the financial betterment of their high net worth individual and industry financiers.
They simply don’t get it. They fundamentally don’t understand the vast majority of human beings (and I mean that independent of any social grouping (ethnicity, “race”, religion et al) or biological gender)), how they live their lives, and what motivates them, and how they perceive the concepts of “integrity” or “justice” (regardless of how different we might perceive those ideas).
If you can’t understand how millions of American women, and men, voted for Donald Trump in this election (other than the Dem partisan explanations of “stupid”, “misinformed”, “ignorant”, “racist”, “misogynist”, “homophobe”, “bitter”, “childish”, “nihilisitic” . . . .), then you both don’t understand what motivates human beings, nor do you understand how to reach them, or persuade them, or find a common ends and a way to make them real.
hear here and here hear.
I will tell you what baffles me. I agree that she failed to turn out the people she needed to turn out. One of those groups was African Americans. They didn’t show enthusiastic levels of support for her in the general election but in the primaries they are basically the group that lifted her over Bernie who was the opposite of a person who would be predicted to engage in “throwing a significant majority of their possible “base” under the proverbial bus for the sake of personal aggrandizement and the financial betterment of their high net worth individual and industry financiers.”
Most of what happened in the election was a surprise to me, but not something that seems difficult to understand. This particular piece of it I don’t understand: why minority voters supported her so strongly over Sanders in the primaries. It seems completely inexplicable to me following what happened in the general.
Why do I have to refresh this page about ten times before it shows my comment? God this website sucks mastodon dicks.
Guess it wasn’t a good idea for Hillary to call so many Americans “deplorable” and “irredeemable.” What a fucking idiot. Denounce and insult your opponent– but not the voters. And not in front of a group of filthy rich celebs at a fundraiser where they laugh at the lines you’re spewing. Fucking Marie Antoinettes in Hollywood and Wall St. guaranteed that Trump would winl
markets with a Trump victory = good news = PRICE CUTS!
The wallstreet thieves who rob America by perping fraudulent values are going to be dropped a size or more. This is good. Wallstreet thieves call price rises a gain. THAT IS A FRAUD FOR THEFT. When stock prices drop, the more the better, it is actually a win! Hellary is full of wallstreet shit and wallstreet is about to take a huge dump.
CELEBRATE!
Did you not read the article you blathering idiot? Trump is cozy with wall street too, and you think the markets have GOOD news for Trump? LOL You’re in for a rude awakening.
Oh- kinda’ like obama’s citigroup list?!
Are you mr. Fang suggesting that he should personally do all the research and get a list of 4000 people in his administration? Did any previous president do it? Would Hillary do it? It’s a crazy assumption to say that lobbyists are there and they will influence Trump! Far from it. Trump’s run organizations and certainly knows what he’s doing. That can’t be said about the other party. Wait and watch. The world will witness a better president than they expected. People who believe in certain patterns of behavior and can’t handle the reality should rightly be paranoid.
hahahahahahahahahaha . . . this is precisely what the Democratic Party gets when it abandons its “base” (the working class of all stripes) and only caters to the relatively rich.
Fuck you national Democratic Party leadership.
Now we’ll see which “liberals/progressives” actually have any fight in them and have something remotely resembling a “principle”.
I am absolutely unsurprised by Trump winning. This is what self-proclaimed liberals/progressives professional politicians get when they think their identity politics minority coalition bullshit will squeak them into their “careers” as politicians doing absolutely nothing for the people they claim they represent. They alienate the working class and turn them into “burn it down” Republicans because they really don’t have a whole lot left to lose.
It’ll be rocky for a decade with the 2018 and 2020 electoral maps, but by then the revanchists will be dead, the GOP agenda will have catastrophically failed and maybe people will wise up by then. If not, then America got exactly what it deserved with its little experiment in self-governance.
ditto! ditto! ditto!
Hellary screwed everyone but her husband and donors.
Who thought i was kidding?
Do you think that with Trump appointees on the Supreme Court and Trump writing the rules nationally and turning a blind eye to state Republican tactics, that it will really be possible for Democrats to win by the time 4-6 years have passed?
The only good thing about these presidential elections is that there are only three more left after this.
America’ going to get the same ol’ same ol’ only it’s going to be worse. Much worse.
They shoved Hillary down our throats even though she’s deeply flawed and has betrayed her base. She deserves this loss.
Exactly. She does. Bill does.
But we don’t.
We don’t but we are. Horrible night.
Trump is winning. God help us.
What? How is this possible?
I thought Trump was going to negotiate. But Chris Christie? I can see him negotiating with Russia.
“Nasdarovje my friends. We would liketo give a toast before we get to the contract to supply your government with new absolutely safe unhackable computers.”
The Idiocracy has arrived.
I wonder how many people in Dresden cheered when they voted for the man who promised to deport the Jews and to make Germany great again.
Thanks Republicans.
Thanks dumbshits.
You will get exactly what you voted for — god help us.
NOT Hillary was the vote – Geddit?
Now, the Democrats could have picked Sanders, who would have annihilated Trump – but Ohh Noo We Must All Stand Together and Double Down on FAILURE because PRINCIPLES. So, now you can suck it right up!
Enjoy Milton, its great to see the end of Fascism. haha
Who surprised, I’m sure Clinton using lobbyist to run her Administration. Washington has become more about protecting the interests of big business, not the People’s business.
It really seems like you guys at The Intercept are scraping the bottom of the barrel to try to find negative things to publish and Tweet about Trump. I realize that you guys are catching a lot of shit for your legitimate reporting on Crooked Hillary, but that doesn’t mean that you need to invent bullshit in order to “balance out” your reporting. Does Trump have lobbyists on his transition team? Probably the same amount that Crooked Hillary has on hers, so why publish a non-story like this? Because like I said, it looks like you guys are desperately trying to push anti-Trump stories and Tweets without any good reasons.
Looking on the sunny side, with a republican president, house and senate maybe this is what it’s going to take to show you that your fantasy of bringing back what was never gone is now your sole responsibility and you’ve got no one to blame but yourselves. Corporate lobbyists telling Trump who’ll he’ll be picking. Yeah, real change that smells of no change at all. Good luck, sucka.
lol exactly. Trump is as full of empty rhetoric as the rest. The best thing the public can do is stop participating in this charade; its credibility is gone. It’s an illusion they perpetuate because it serves THEM, not YOU.
I hope that you were drunk when you wrote that comment, because it makes absolutely no sense. I also hope that your hangover isn’t too bad today!
the ‘sunny’ side is that the US and world ‘media’ will start doing their jobs again after an 8 year hiatus…
Perhaps, but didn’t Trump declare that he would be different? Isn’t that the point? It really is not difficult to see his flaws as he wears them so prominently. From pouty tantrums when anyone disagrees with him to his over the top promises and embarrassing vices..it’s all painfully evident. What is most irritating is that Trump can not seem to answer a question or tackle an issue without pulling Hillary into it. The blame game has ended. He’s in, time to deliver on his promises. The Republican party is responsible for its candidates, not the Democrats. Republicans notoriously deny responsibility. Now it is all on their shoulders. Let’s see if it is wasted pointing the finger at everyone else for its dismal outcome or will we plunge into darkness under Trump’s mighty command? Please, He is but a little man and should be reminded of that often. If we are not willing to put him in his place, then watch out.
Aww, Lee Fang, you are breaking my heart.
Before bed last night, I read (pro-HRC) Mr Eichenwald’s 129 tweets: https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/781607229241823233.
I might start pulling out my hair, but I think I should pour a nice straight rum this afternoon, instead. West Coast time – we’ll hear them call the race for the Democrat early.
I’ll walk around the corner and vote for Dr Stein with a mixture of oh sh*! and it’s fu**ng over already.
Finally. A bit more humor. (Twisted, huh?)
@avelna2001
Don’t bother trying to reason with “free” the moron. S/he has seen copious evidence that this site overall could not possibly be characterized as “pro-Clinton.” (One or two writers, maybe.)
Hell, the DNC/HRC hacks spend lotsa time ranting that Glenn Greenwald and the Intercept are Putin-worshiping Kremlin agents who want Trump to win. Indeed, Democratic campaign operative, Bob Shrum, sputtered forth that Glenn is a “criminal agent of the Kremlin conspiracy.”
Methinks free’s mommy dropped him/her on the head when s/he was a tyke.
It must be very exhausting having to defend TI these days.
I complained about the attitudes here.
It might be time to wind it down, Mona, as emotions are running high.
There’s not much you can do to change people’s minds, is there?
Lee Fang is one of my favorites. He’s a great investigative reporter.
Shrummy was a losing operative. He’s angry.
Everybody has to chill.
One of the two major party candidates is going to be elected – barring a squeaky race and a McMullin win in UT. (Plus how badly the Suppression Act will prevail.)
I will say again – I rant about Ms Clinton, but the other guy is sheer insanity. I know, know, KNOW she is horrible and dangerous and corrupt, and self-serving, and a neocon/lib, who doesn’t have our interests at heart, but I don’t think …
Actually, I can’t finish that sentence.
It’s awful. Some of us will get the President we deserve, others; not so much.
I pray that Trump does not win but none of us up here are really convinced. Terrified to think what would happen if he does.
Um, yup!
Politico says: Trump’s 100-plus person transition team, emboldened by tightening polls, is focusing on how to use executive authority to quickly undo Obama’s regulations on energy, taxes and healthcare
Yikes. If all goes well tonight, Trump and his rabble won’t be getting near the white house.
Wrong as usual Nate. This is what comes from the sickening, widening of inequality, and from years of a corrupt administration only serving the elites. This is an anti establishment vote, exactly the same as Brexit.
Still the outsider maverick, I see.
Wikileaks has amply demonstrated oligarchy rules; the Democratic party has become the preferred choice of said oligarchy (Republicans are dragged down by retrograde baggage in comparison). The Democratic party through the magic of predictive analytics not only anticipated, but created the main strategic geography of this election, right down to the ex-nihilo “Pied Piper” persona of Donald Trump (again per Wikileaks’ revelations). The purpose, besides winning of course, is twofold, use the creation of the strategic geography to control, indeed “drive” the election to the desired outcome; to present said strategic geography as alibi in the case of an even more controlled and technically pre-determined outcome–in which case the aforesaid alibi of the magic of predictive analytics serves to mask the outright falsity of the election results.
To me this entire election was captured on CNN about 40 minutes ago when they showed a graphic of a few New York City blocks with the tag line: “Clinton and Trump await results 1 mile apart in New York.”
You think they’re different? You think 1 mile is a big separation? Only in our fantasies.
People hate Trump, and they hate Clinton. Stein and Johnson are just as useless. The American people will turn out and vote for the candidate that will keep the other main one out… What a waste of time. No one wins regardless of which candidate wins.
Many analysts talk about Trump as a right-wing populist, and it certainly is. Others describe him as a fascist. Although it seems excessive (Trump has not detailed his great military plans), in his attitude they are in fact elements of the Italian fascism: the cult to the leader, the irrational emotionality, the incendiary deflections, the obsession by the conspiracy theories, the fear To the distinct seen as a threat, the appeal to a past of mythical greatness and the promise to restore it.
In this election these are no longer the sole traits of the Trumpistas. While the Reichwing has Project Fear, rank and file ‘left’US has also lost its marbles, for fear of Agent Orange. See e.g the Trumputin ‘theory’.
Don’t show a Clintonista a single damning email or they tell you:
a. “you’re a Trumpkin!”
b. “It wos the Russkies, stooopid!”
And on one feminist site I got told it was all due to misogyny [Hellary having a spot of trouble defeating the Village Idiot].
Like I’ve been saying all along, this is one of the last human beings on the planet I want representing me or “liberal/leftist/progressive” politics in the White House:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/08/labour-elected-jeremy-corbyn-maddest-person-in-room-bill-clinton
The guy single-handedly set back progressive politics in this nation 20 years at a minimum. And that’s not even counting his personal moral failings and abusive if not criminal treatment of women.
Clinton in destroying the New Deal set progressive politics back to Herbert Hoover. It not a matter of philosophy but a matter of cash in his pocket. And the media industrial complex has tried to maintain the mirage of two political parties since the Clinton regime. The whole set of fools and surrogates need to face the pitch forks of an angry mob like the WWI vets who came to Washington to protest Hoover.
Did I mention the time Bob Woodward referred to Mr Obama as a Progressive no less than four times in one chapter?
“The era of big government is over.”
Amy Goodman is offering up her 30 minutes with Bill when he was calling radio stations to promote HRC Senate race and President Al Gore.
People – let’s hope that the math wins out over emotion.
We have done the right thing before (deep breaths, here). It’s only four years and we’ll have elected our first woman president. It is OUR job to claw at her every damn day.
@rrheard:
Wow! Thanks for that link.
More of the face of “Clintonian progressivism” revealed. Must spread far and wide.
A Corbynist.
So? So fucking what? We saw that Obama took orders from Wall Street DIRECTLY, hiring 95% of the names on a list that Citibank told him to hire. And we have already seen that Shillary is taking orders from Haim Saban, Herb Sandler, and Marc Lasry – think ANY of them give a shit about the average american? Guess what? The Ruling Party wins again, no matter which Stooge is in the White House.
“So? So fucking what? . . . The Ruling Party wins again, no matter which Stooge is in the White House.”
See there? You answered your own question.
This is the liberal pot calling the kettle Trump black again:
Citigroup chose Obama’s 2008 cabinet, WikiLeaks document reveals
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/15/wiki-o15.html
“One month before the presidential election of 2008, the giant Wall Street bank Citigroup submitted to the Obama campaign a list of its preferred candidates for cabinet positions in an Obama administration. This list corresponds almost exactly to the eventual composition of Barack Obama’s cabinet.”
“Froman’s list proved remarkably prescient. As it proposed, Robert Gates, a Bush holdover, became secretary of Defense; Eric Holder became attorney general; Janet Napolitano, secretary of Homeland Security; Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff; Susan Rice, United Nations ambassador; Arne Duncan, secretary of Education; Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services; Peter Orszag, head of the Office of Management and Budget; Eric Shinseki, secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Melody Barnes, chief of the Domestic Policy Council.”
‘Citigroup’s recommendations came just three days after then-President George W. Bush signed into law the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which allocated $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue the largest Wall Street banks. The single biggest beneficiary was Citigroup, which was given $45 billion in cash in the form of a government stock purchase, plus a $306 billion government guarantee to back up its worthless mortgage-related assets.”
“If the 2008 Podesta emails are any indication, the next four years of public policy are being hashed out right now, behind closed doors,” wrote New Republic author David Dayen. “And if liberals want to have an impact on that process, waiting until after the election will be too late.”
Shocker!
I got news for you buddy: They are both the same.
Stop endorsing this insanity.
Stop voting!
Looks like the fully corrupt, pro-clinton ‘intercept’ keeps posting pro-clinton advertisint to the very last minute.
What a bunch of corrupt, despicable clowns. Cue “mona” in.
Yes, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic administration wanted to kill or capture Edward Snowden for giving his AES256 file to some journalists — one of whom proceeded to form a news organization that is now running 24/7 commercials for Hillary Clinton and defending the lies of the deep state that Snowden opposed.
Internet cliché tho it may be, you do need stronger, better meds. (Or a great spliff.)
Oh for god’s sake. The Intercept already wrote about Clinton’s transition team and criticized her roundly for it. You don’t appear to be particularly literate if you actually believe that this is a pro-Clinton piece.
You’re just plain wrong free. This isn’t a Clintonista site by a LONG shot.
Can’t stop bashing Trump, eh? Is Clinton is a saint? Please!
The Intercept = Mother Jones = Huffington Post = mainstream trash.
This is silly.
Lee Fang has done great reporting on Clinton as has the Intercept.
Mother Jones is kinda of like NPR in that it’s kinda liberal but still tends to serve elite interests. Although it does have some good journalists. Sure Huffington Post is main stream trash but no one denies that. Although they also have some hard working good journalists too. Equating the intercept with these 2 means you cannot even be taken seriously? So why am I? Boredom.
And that’s about the size of it. But of course, and notwithstanding that reality, we liberals/leftists/progressives are supposed to line up behind Hillary Clinton because she’s got real concrete plans to give the little people a slightly more crumb filled sandwich made by her corporate lobbyist pals and appointees.
Oh wait, the crumb sandwiches Hillary Clinton’s administration will serve up will have some government cheese melted on it, you know, so it makes them really really yummy.
Can’t wait for the bipartisan tax repatriation holiday that will supposedly bring in billions for infrastructure, but that I’m almost willing to guarantee will not be spent on anything other than small ball infrastructure projects instead of moving swiftly to a fossil fuel free economy, high speed rail, and re-orienting our economy away from one that “works” only if there is wanton consumption of disposable crap and consumer goods.
“crumb sandwiches”
I heard they were substituting crumbs for dogfood. But before you can eat it, you have to have your nose rubbed in it for supporting Sanders. ;)