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mitty14u2

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Wed May 11, 2016, 02:14 PM May 2016

Camel Eye of a Needle - Trusting Trump at Your own Risk without Reward.

The Americans Trump Betrayed by Courting Big-Money Donors


Last week, after Ted Cruz dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination––Trump once said of Cruz, “Goldman Sachs owns him. Remember that, folks: They own him."––Trump put Steven Mnuchin in charge of soliciting campaign funds from big-money donors. Who is he? “In 2003, the new finance director started a hedge fund with $1 billion from George Soros, the liberal New York financier who has spent more than $13 million to support Hillary Clinton and other Democrats,” Bloomberg Politics reports. Before that, Mnuchin “spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., working his way up to partner and becoming head of the mortgage department before joining Hank Paulson in the executive suite.”

Last autumn, Scott McLellan, a retiree in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, saw a Facebook post by Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidency, who declared, “By self-funding my campaign, I am not controlled by my donors, special interests or lobbyists. I am only working for the people of the U.S.!”

More than 300,000 people “liked” the post.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/the-americans-trump-betrayed-by-courting-big-money-donors/482025/

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”







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Camel Eye of a Needle - Trusting Trump at Your own Risk without Reward. (Original Post) mitty14u2 May 2016 OP
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