Meet The Men And Women Behind Donald Trump

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Meet The Men And Women Behind Donald Trump

by Emily Atkin & Laurel Raymond at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/05/10/3775473/trump-advisers-republican-nominee-2/

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Steve Mnuchin

Trump tapped Steve Mnunchin, the chairman and CEO of private investment firm Dune Capital Management, to serve as his campaign’s finance chair last week. Though his name may not immediately ring a bell, he is “one of the most notorious bankers in America” — at least according to David Dayen at the New Republic.

Dayen’s profile of Mnuchin is worth reading in full. It details the era of Mnuchin’s career when, during the height of the financial crisis, he purchased OneWest Bank and immediately began foreclosures on thousands of people’s homes. The foreclosures, which disproportionately happened in non-white neighborhoods, were accomplished through fraud, Dayen writes. One employee testified that she “‘robo-signed'” 6,000 foreclosure-related documents per week, spending just 30 seconds on each sworn affidavit that attested to the veracity of all relevant information in the case.”

For Dayen, Trump’s choice of Mnuchin for finance chair calls into question Trump’s stated brand of populism. “The foreclosure history in Mnuchin’s past reflects an extreme mentality of profit at all costs, and hardly a viewpoint of standing up for the little guy,” he writes. “Trump as populist was always something of a pose, covering for a deep nationalism and antipathy to immigrants. The Mnuchin pick just brings that into sharper relief.”

Corey Lewandowski

Perhaps the most well-known of Trump’s campaign staff, Corey Lewandowski launched into the national spotlight earlier this year when he grabbed a Breitbart reporter by the arm, and then, despite video evidence, refused to acknowledge that the incident occurred. Police charged Lewandowski with misdemeanor battery, but a court recently said he would not be prosecuted.



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