Posted on 03/06/2018 6:07:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Gary Cohn, the White House’s top economic adviser, announced Tuesday that he was leaving the administration amid a major internal clash over President Trump’s sharp and sudden pivot toward protectionist trade policies.
The departure of Cohn, a former president of Goldman Sachs who had been an interlocutor between the Trump administration and the business community, is the latest jolt to a White House that has been especially tumultuous in recent weeks and unable to retain some of its top talent.
His resignation as National Economic Council director leaves the White House without a financial heavyweight whom business executives and foreign leaders believed had served as a counter to Trump’s protectionist impulses and as a moderating force in other areas.
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Cohn and Mnuchin were in the Administration for one reason and one reason only.
To get the corporate tax rate almost cut in half.
Mission accomplished, they are both out the door and back to Goldman Sachs.
The “middle class tax cut” expires in 7 years but the corporate tax cut doesn’t.
They played us for suckers, just like Gruber.
Goldman Sachs = Deep State. Glad he’s gone.
Dow is down 289 right now.
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