Trump unveils all-male economic advisory team

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico

By NICK GASS 08/05/16 07:40 AM EDT

Donald Trump's campaign on Friday announced more than a dozen members of the Republican nominee's all-male economic advisory team, including several prominent real-estate investors, hedge-fund managers and bankers.

Names on the list, which the Trump campaign boasted as having "unparalleled experience and success in business" include Steve Roth, the founder and chairman of Vornado Realty Trust; oil and gas tycoon Harold Hamm; Vector Group President and CEO Howard Lorber; Steven Mnuchin, Trump's national finance director and chairman/CEO of Dune Capital; top fundraiser Tom Barrack, the founder and chief executive at Colony Capital; Stephen M. Calk, chairman and CEO of The Federal Savings Bank; John Paulson, president and CEO of investment firm Paulson & Co.; Andy Beal, a banker, businessman and poker player; and Steve Feinberg, co-founder and CEO of Cerberus Capital Management.

Trump advisers David Malpass, Peter Navarro, Stephen Moore and Dan DiMicco are also on the list, led by Stephen Miller, the national policy director, and deputy policy director Dan Kowalski. The Trump campaign said that more names will be added at a later date. The announcement comes ahead of Trump's speech Monday at the Detroit Economic Club, where the Republican nominee is expected to lay out his agenda for the American economy.

“I am pleased that we have such a formidable group of experienced and talented individuals that will work with me to implement real solutions for the economic issues facing our country," Trump said in a statement released by his campaign. "For too long we have watched as President Obama and Hillary Clinton have ruined our economy and decimated the middle class. I am going to be the greatest jobs President our country has ever seen. We will do more for the hardworking people of our country and Make America Great Again.”

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[SummerSnow]

1. he wants the rich to run the govt. Oh and no women at all.

[geek tragedy]

2. no women, four guys named Steve nt

[C_U_L8R]

3. I always thought Cerberus Capital was aptly named.

The Hound of Hades. Wonder what the fundies think of... Trump getting financial advice from Satan????

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus

[sherlocksistah]

28. Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions

just had to post this story from AlterNet in 2010 about this vulture capitalist corporation, probably post it again when I can. Just a taste of the kind of folks Trump loves.
"How one company made $1.8 billion by paying peanuts to human plasma donors, and then manipulated the market by restricting supply to the desperately ill."

http://www.alternet.org/story/145044/cerberus_capital%3A_literally_blood-sucking_the_poor_to_make_their_billions

[underpants]

4. What about the female reporter (former employee of his) that he was flirting with

He sort of offered her a "cabinet post" ifyouknowwhatImean

[flor-de-jasmim]

5. Yep, definitely needs Mitt's binders of women.

[George II]

6. I haven't scrutinized the list myself yet, but CNN also said they're all WHITE males.

[Frank Cannon]

13. I was about to speculate that was the case.

Why am I completely unsurprised?

[Roy Rolling]

7. Damn!

Said Trump, "...I thought you people would get off my back about that diversity thing if I added coloreds to the team. Rigged".

[bucolic_frolic]

8. It's an intellectual GOLD MINE

Dan Quayle works for Cerberus

Corporate Raiders and Vulture Capitalists all of them

Trash the environment for money for them

[jpak]

9. Hold on to yer wallet

yup

[dhol82]

10. Sharknado!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

17. !!!

[groundloop]

11. How many bankruptcies between them?

Seeing as how several of them are from corporate raider / vulture capital firms I'm guessing there are a fair amount of bankruptcies among them. That's definitely the easiest method to walk away from a corporate takeover with $millions in your pocket - it's nothing more than legalized stealing (while employees, contractors, and creditors get screwed).

[eppur_se_muova]

12. History being made at last ! nt

[Initech]

14. Why does this remind me of Dodgeball?

[Gothmog]

15. Trump is a sexist idiot

[Hugin]

16. Gee, why is this reading more and more like the 1930s "White House Coup"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot


More Corporatism from the Trumpanzees.

[liberal N proud]

18. This whole thread is a DUzy

[Moonwalk]

19. Comedians are going to have a hard time joking about Hillary's Wallstreet ties after this....

...it'll be like trying to joke about how she stepped into a wading pool while Trump cannonballed into the deep end.

[orwell]

20. Ruined our economy?

Unemployment under 5%.

Banking system salvaged from the wreckage that Bush and the Cons left.

Housing prices at all time highs.

All US stock markets at all time highs.

Retirement accounts recovered from the Con wipeout.

Gas the lowest in many years.

The dollar strong.

A higher percentage of people with health insurance at any time in recent history.

What the hell is this dolt blabbering about?

[Initech]

21. Typical Fox News bullshit

Fast & Furious (whatever that was )
Benghazi (another non scandal)

And other nonsense.

[jmowreader]

22. Cute, Donald

You're going to take most of the people who broke the economy during the Bush administration and put them in charge of the government. I no longer want to see Trump's tax returns - I want to see his brokerage account so I know how many short positions he is sitting on.

[MrScorpio]

23. Color me surprised nt

[Paladin]

24. "...a banker, businessman and poker player...."

That's where I stopped reading.

[tanyev]

25. A whole new team of people he won't listen to!

[Democat]

26. Obama saved the US economy, why let Trump ruin it?

Back to the Bush years?

[Hortensis]

27. Trump had another advisory group last year that he

blew off even though some very prestigious people signed up to try to help him. Last I heard he'd set up a meeting and then didn't bother to show up. It seemed possibly just an exercise in vanity to show how much bigger he was than them and how much he didn't need them.