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Surprise! Most Corrupt Bankster in U.S. Endorses Hillary Clinton
LewRockwell.com ^ | June 27, 2016 | Thomas DiLorenzo

Posted on 06/27/2016 9:23:00 AM PDT by all the best

It’s hard to imagine a better endorsement of Donald Trump’s economic policies – whatever they may be, whenever he finds the time to explain them – than the recent endorsement of Hillary Clinton by former Goldman Sachs CEO and U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. As the man in charge of the biggest explosion of corporate welfare in world history – the “TARP” bailouts, he defined himself as a sworn enemy of capitalism and a socialist when it comes to the capital markets. Socializing billions of dollars in investment bank, insurance company, and automobile industry losses with taxpayer dollars qualifies Paulson as deserving of the S-word label. As such, Hillary Clinton may well have found a new political and financial soulmate.

Paulson began his career and cut his political teeth with some of the sleaziest and most disastrous political hacks in American history – first as a Pentagon assistant to the secretary of defense, then as a Nixon administration assistant to John Ehrlichman, the convicted Watergate felon. Such sterling credentials earned him a position at Goldman Sachs, where he presumably mastered the political dirty trick skills that he must have learned from Ehrlichman and the rest to eventually claw his way up to the CEO position.

Paulson and Hillary Clinton might as well be cloned twins when it comes to using their positions of political power to line the pockets of the wealthiest people in America in return for kickbacks and political support. As the chief corporate welfare czar during the Bush administration, a first order of business was the $180 billion bailout of the insurance company AIG, ninety percent of which was totally solvent, as documented by David Stockman in his book, The Great Deformation. Rather than allowing a healthy free-market purge of AIG’s bad assets, Paulson showered the company...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016endorsements; alexjones; banking; clinton; cultureofcorruption; election2016; goldmansachs; hankpaulson; hillary; hillary2016; lewrockwell; newyork; prisonplanet; thomasdilorenzo; trump
Donald needs to use the growing list of corrupt corporate globalists who support Hillary against her.
1 posted on 06/27/2016 9:23:00 AM PDT by all the best
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To: all the best

Maybe those speeches that Hillary gave to GS are paying off?


2 posted on 06/27/2016 9:24:33 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: all the best

I started to dislike W when he named Hank Paulson as Treasury Secretary....he was a KNOWN DEMOCRAT with a RABIDLY LIBERAL WIFE!!


3 posted on 06/27/2016 9:24:36 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: all the best

NWO Or BUST!!!

When does W endorse Hillary?


4 posted on 06/27/2016 9:25:44 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: all the best
Donald needs to use the growing list of corrupt corporate globalists who support Hillary against her.

I would assume he is gathering the data and waiting for the appropriate time to load it into he repertoire of weaponry.

5 posted on 06/27/2016 9:30:32 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: all the best


SIMILAR

6 posted on 06/27/2016 9:30:47 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: Ann Archy

Getting appointed to Treasury saved Paulson $250 million in taxes, a lot of people don’t remember that. Plenty of payoff money to distribute.


7 posted on 06/27/2016 9:34:19 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Wisdom is doing due diligence before forming an opinion)
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To: all the best
It is a close call whether Paulson is really corrupt, or just plain stupid. As I remember, he was the crack-brained advocate for banks leveraging assets thirty-fold, which led to the crisis that resulted in the bailout. That makes him the nearest thing to the fops in 18th Century Paris, who chuckled about “after us, the deluge”—men too full of themselves to stop and realize what that deluge—and the resulting Revolution--would mean for their grandaughters.

Paulson was in Washington long enough to understand how depraved Hillary Clinton is. His endorsement tells us a great deal about the man's moral compass. (Absent!)

I know the man can be both corrupt & stupid. It just strikes me that the latter is the slightly more accurate definition of the two.

8 posted on 06/27/2016 9:43:41 AM PDT by Ohioan
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Details PLEASE!!


9 posted on 06/27/2016 9:58:55 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: all the best

10 posted on 06/27/2016 10:09:39 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: NormsRevenge

[When does W endorse Hillary?]

Shouldn’t be too long now. I expect daddy, bro Jeb and mommy to be on board, too.


11 posted on 06/27/2016 10:18:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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Loved his brother Pat


12 posted on 06/27/2016 10:24:56 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (JFK Wanted To Send Man To Moon - Obama Wants To Send Man To Ladies Room)
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To: all the best

What’s a bankster?


13 posted on 06/27/2016 10:47:55 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Ann Archy

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/the-200-million-reason-henry-paulson-became-treasury-secretary/

Getting appointed to Treasury gave him the privilege (and obligation) of divesting his Goldman Sachs holdings TAX FREE. Saved $200M in capital gains taxes.


14 posted on 06/27/2016 11:15:23 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Wisdom is doing due diligence before forming an opinion)
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The incorrigibly, egregiously corrupt are endorsing Hillary?

Wow, there’s a shocker.


15 posted on 06/27/2016 11:51:24 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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paulson lew what difference does it make...
how paulson got to head GS is beyond my comprehension...
but it is not the first time a bush used TAXPAYER money to bail out CROOKS..
the globalists NWO crew are all bankster gangsters and thugs....
gee but its nice to be a gangsta...


16 posted on 06/27/2016 1:15:22 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: NonValueAdded
'Loved his brother Pat'


17 posted on 06/27/2016 8:57:17 PM PDT by Pelham (Obama, the most unAmerican President in history)
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