# Trump rewards big donors with Cabinet posts **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 1, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506 "2016-12-01T02:14:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/21 "2016-12-01T23:51:22Z")
Man, the amount of insider trading that’s about to happen is going to be legion! Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/22 "2016-12-02T00:04:03Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > Man, the amount of insider trading that’s about to happen is going to be legion! > > Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk You mean, “Man, the amount of insider trading that’s about to happen is going to be [del]legion[/del] _YUUUUGE_!” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/23 "2016-12-02T00:21:38Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > You mean, “Man, the amount of insider trading that’s about to happen is going to be [del]legion[/del] _YUUUUGE_!” We’re talkin’ Big League insider trading! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/24 "2016-12-02T01:03:42Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > We’re talkin’ Big League insider trading! That’s _bigly_. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/25 "2016-12-02T01:58:15Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This from the Hypocrite-Elect who accused Hillary of “pay for play” and peddling “access” to the State Department by accepting hefty fees for speaking when it was never shown that those who paid her got anything except her \*presence \*at events (which was probably worth every penny because it filled the tables). [But he self-funded his own campaign.](http://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/427857932/are-donald-trumps-pockets-deep-enough-to-fund-his-campaign)[Oh, maybe he didn’t after all.](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/trumps-self-funding-lie/482691/)[A timeline of Trump’s campaign funding.](http://www.npr.org/2016/07/14/485699964/every-position-donald-trump-has-taken-on-how-he-is-funding-his-campaign) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/26 "2016-12-02T02:03:28Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > [But he self-funded his own campaign.](http://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/427857932/are-donald-trumps-pockets-deep-enough-to-fund-his-campaign)[Oh, maybe he didn’t after all.](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/trumps-self-funding-lie/482691/)[A timeline of Trump’s campaign funding.](http://www.npr.org/2016/07/14/485699964/every-position-donald-trump-has-taken-on-how-he-is-funding-his-campaign) > > Stranger Well, one thing you can always count on: his inconsistency. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/27 "2016-12-02T02:39:14Z")
Don’t any of his supporters note that he was the guy who criticized Hillary for “being in bed with Wall Street”? Do they not see that? Does this array of billionaire investors not bother them at all? Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/28 "2016-12-02T03:04:46Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” - Honore de Balzac “At the beginning of every great fortune is a sponge. At the end of every great fortune is a faucet.” - Donald E. Westlake ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/29 "2016-12-02T03:06:55Z")
In bed with Wall Street, you say? [ProPublica: “Trump’s Treasury Secretary Pick is a Lucky Man. Very Lucky.”](https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-treasury-secretary-pick-steven-mnuchin-is-a-lucky-man) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/30 "2016-12-02T03:25:47Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > In bed with Wall Street, you say? [ProPublica: “Trump’s Treasury Secretary Pick is a Lucky Man. Very Lucky.”](https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-treasury-secretary-pick-steven-mnuchin-is-a-lucky-man) > > Stranger Christ on a cracker. > [@](#): > > …Mnuchin was born into a family of Wall Street royalty. His father was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs for 30 years, serving in top management. He and his brother landed at the powerful firm, too. After making millions in mortgage trading, Mnuchin struck out on his own, creating a hedge fund and building a record of smart and well-timed investment moves. > > He dodged disaster when he inherited his mother’s portfolio. She was a longtime investor with Bernie Madoff, the largest Ponzi schemer in American history. After she died in early 2005, Mnuchin and his brother quickly liquidated her investments, making $3.2 million. The Madoff trustee, Irving Picard, sued to retrieve the money from the Mnuchins, as he did from other Ponzi scheme winners, contending that they were fake gains. A court ruled that Picard could only claw back money from those who had cashed out within two years before the collapse. The Mnuchins, having pulled out roughly three years before, got to keep their Madoff money. That something was dodgy about Madoff was an open secret on Wall Street. > … > > What good happenstance, then, that Trump didn’t mean what he said about Wall Street on the campaign trail. > > On the stump, Trump said, “We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the people who rigged it in the first place.” He attacked Goldman Sachs by name, saying that the bank “owns” Ted Cruz, whose wife worked at the firm. “I know the guys at Goldman Sachs,” he said, “They have total, total control over [Cruz]. Just like they have total control over Hillary Clinton.” Trump put an image of Goldman CEO and chairman Lloyd Blankfein, along with other Jewish figures in finance like George Soros and Janet Yellen, in a commercial late in the campaign that was widely decried as anti-Semitic. > > Trump did not feel such a strong antipathy for Goldman that he passed over a firm veteran [Mnuchiin] to be his treasury secretary… The whole article \*\*Stranger \*\*linked to in the previous post is well worth a read. Even if it does leave you retching over the white wishing well afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/31 "2016-12-02T03:54:06Z")
For his next trick, he’ll shoot a man on Fifth Avenue! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/32 "2016-12-02T07:15:18Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > … Donald E. Westlake Are you one with Dortmunder? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/33 "2016-12-02T18:17:30Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Don’t any of his supporters note that he was the guy who criticized Hillary for “being in bed with Wall Street”? Do they not see that? Does this array of billionaire investors not bother them at all? > > Never mind. It’s OK If A Republican Does It. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/34 "2016-12-02T19:43:12Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Are you one with Dortmunder? My friend, I was Westlake’s BOOK EDITOR for years. I worked with him on GOOD BEHAVIOR, DROWNED HOPES, DON’T ASK, WHAT’S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN? (Which he dedicated to my newborn son Quinn, who was a preemie…dig out your copy and check!), and BAD NEWS. Plus all the non-Dortmunders in between. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/35 "2016-12-02T20:21:41Z")
I never kept a copy, I always gave them away. Only books I have are the ones I didn’t press upon others. Also, have PM’d a question. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506/36 "2016-12-02T20:28:04Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I never kept a copy, I always gave them away. That’s what I do with my favorite books-I share them. You can tell how much I love a book by the number of times I’ve bought it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-rewards-big-donors-with-cabinet-posts/773506.md?page=1)