Mnuchin is the consigliere.

moat — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 22:26:38 +0000

On cross-link at The New

artappraiser — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:25:29 +0000

In reply to Ex-White House Aide Olivia Troye on Trump’s Narcissistic Mishandling of COVID-19

On cross-link at The New Yorker, I ran across this which I had missed in July

The High-Finance Mogul in Charge of Our Economic Recovery

How Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin became one of the most consequential policymakers in the world. Mnuchin’s fealty serves as a kind of job insurance. “He’s almost part of the family,” a former Administration official said.

By Sheelah Kolhatkar July 13, 2020

Made me think about how he's about the only one that has managed to finagle running his own fiefdom under Trump. He's figured out a way to get things done that the boss would screw up or outright turn down on idiotic whim. I suspect how he does is mainly go through Jared? In any case, seems like both aisles of Congress go to him and not Trump to get reality-based stuff done.

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Mnuchin is the consigliere.

On cross-link at The New