The prime motivator for many is, of course, money and more money.

The article by Jon Rappoport needs an application of common sense. While I do have a modicum of respect for him, he at times tends to swim to far away from the raft.

Citing an article by Rolling Stone magazine is one of these times.

First and foremost one must consider how often and how frequently folks have tried to out maneuver the Donald. Just look at the times since before the Repub convention when he stood in a chorus line of no less than 16 wanna be's.

Almost everyone, ALL media, and INCLUDING the aforementioned Jon Rappaport unversally proclaimed him a joke with no chance.

Same with the convention.

Same with the primaries.

Same up through the beginning of election eve.

Same with the CIA leaking fake news.

Same with the electoral college,

Same with the counting by congress.

Same with every event, the liberal howls were and are...desperate.

Each time, Donald was one move ahead of them..

He still is.

As for the Goldman Sachs Appointments... It's just another chess move that will pay dividends.

The quandary faced by the black state is the most divisive one could imagine. Simply put, the evil ones are met with a choice. Their NWO idiology versus money.

The black state CIA runs on off budget funds. Drugs is a biggie, but Goldman and Wall Street are the ones who must launder the funds.

Trump is a master at the game, and since he has few strings attached, he is quite wise in recognising the problem.

I personally believe that the thing that drives the Donald is a burning desire to kill the snake that is strangling America.

What better way to plan your moves than inviting the snakes into your office where you can decode the plans?

Donald neither needs nor wants any more money. His personal life is as free of scandals as anyone. and, as
president he has more power than anyone else on the planet.

Plenty of folks have disregarded the Donald as a lucky anomaly, only to be extremely sorry.

I for one would not bet against him.

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: Newsletter: What deal did Donald Trump make with Goldman
: Sachs?

: By Jon Rappoport

: Wall Street On Parade (January 9) details the boggling Goldman
: Sachs presence on Trump's team. My comments will follow the
: list of names.

: "Trump nominated Steven Mnuchin, a 17-year veteran of
: Goldman Sachs to be his Treasury Secretary."

: "Stephen Bannon, another former Goldman Sachs banker, was
: named by Trump as his Chief Strategist in the White
: House."

: "The sitting President of Goldman Sachs, Gary Cohn, has
: been named by Trump as Director of the National Economic
: Council, which, according to its website, coordinates
: 'policy-making for domestic and international economic
: issues'."

: "...Trump nominated a Goldman Sachs outside lawyer, Jay
: Clayton of Sullivan & Cromwell, to serve as Wall
: Street's top cop as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange
: Commission."

: "...Clayton's wife currently works as a Vice President at
: Goldman Sachs."

: "According to Politico, Goldman Sachs partner, Dina
: Powell, President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, is
: Ivanka's 'top adviser on policy and staffing'."

: "Then there is Erin Walsh who had worked at Goldman Sachs
: since 2010 as an Executive Director and head of its Office
: of Corporate Engagement for Asia Pacific...Walsh is now
: part of Trump's transition landing team for the State
: Department and is engaged in prepping the just retired CEO
: of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, for his Senate confirmation
: hearing this week to become the Secretary of the Department
: of State, according to Politico."

: "And there is yet another former Goldman Sachs banker,
: Anthony Scaramucci, who sits on Trump's transition
: team."

: The first question is: would a Trump-Goldman deal benefit
: Trump in a personal way? Wall Street On Parade offers
: possible clues.

: "Now the Dow Jones company, MarketWatch, has reported
: that Trump's debt is held by more than 150 Wall Street
: firms. The New York Times has reported that Goldman Sachs
: Mortgage Company holds a loan on an office tower at 1290
: Avenue of the Americas, a building that is 30 percent owned
: by Donald Trump."

: "Some of the Trump debt held by Wall Street firms,
: according to media reports, includes Donald Trump's
: personal guarantee in the event of a default. The true
: owners of other Trump debt are shielded behind secretive
: Limited Liability Corporations..."

: If Trump is in trouble with those loans, if he's in danger of
: not being able to make his payments, then that fact could
: form the basis of a Goldman Sachs deal. Trump gets loan
: protection, Goldman gets a number of influential (and
: self-serving) seats at the big table in Trump's
: administration.

: Beyond this, Goldman Sachs is...I'll let Matt Taibbi describe
: them. From his classic 2010 Rolling Stone article:
: "The world's most powerful investment bank is a great
: vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity,
: relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that
: smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent
: financial crisis [2008], which doubles as a history of the
: rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry
: American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs
: graduates."

: "By now, most of us know the major players. As George
: Bush's last Treasury secretary, former Goldman CEO Henry
: Paulson was the architect of the bailout, a suspiciously
: self-serving plan to funnel trillions of Your Dollars to a
: handful of his old friends on Wall Street. Robert Rubin,
: Bill Clinton's former Treasury secretary, spent 26 years at
: Goldman before becoming chairman of Citigroup - which in
: turn got a $300 billion taxpayer bailout from Paulson.
: There's John Thain, the asshole chief of Merrill Lynch who
: bought an $87,000 area rug for his office as his company
: was imploding; a former Goldman banker, Thain enjoyed a
: multi-billion-dollar handout from Paulson, who used
: billions in taxpayer funds to help Bank of America rescue
: Thain's sorry company. And Robert Steel, the former
: Goldmanite head of Wachovia, scored himself and his fellow
: executives $225 million in golden-parachute payments as his
: bank was self-destructing. There's Joshua Bolten, Bush's
: chief of staff during the bailout, and Mark Patterson, the
: current Treasury chief of staff, who was a Goldman lobbyist
: just a year ago, and Ed Liddy, the former Goldman director
: whom Paulson put in charge of bailed-out insurance giant
: AIG, which forked over $13 billion to Goldman after Liddy
: came on board. The heads of the Canadian and Italian
: national banks are Goldman alums, as is the head of the
: World Bank, the head of the New York Stock Exchange, the
: last two heads of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York -
: which, incidentally, is now in charge of overseeing
: Goldman..."

: "The bank's unprecedented reach and power have enabled it
: to turn all of America into a giant pump-and-dump scam,
: manipulating whole economic sectors for years at a time,
: moving the dice game as this or that market collapses, and
: all the time gorging itself on the unseen costs that are
: breaking families everywhere - high gas prices, rising
: consumer credit rates, half-eaten pension funds, mass
: layoffs, future taxes to pay off bailouts..."

: So, Goldman Sachs wants to keep on doing what it has been
: doing. On the other hand, Trump wants a rising stock
: market---a symbolic signal that the economy is strong.
: Understanding that the market is manipulated by insiders,
: Trump would know where to go to make a deal.

: Goldman gives him rising market numbers, and Trump gives them
: what they want. How much of what they want?

: Another area where Goldman could provide help: assembling the
: funding for a major part of what appears to be an FDR
: New-Deal project to rebuild America's infrastructure,
: putting large numbers of unemployed people back to work.
: The cost? At least a trillion dollars. Convincing Congress
: to back this plan---and also support Trump's tax
: cuts---could run into a serious roadblock. The money has to
: come from somewhere.

: It might be useful to analyze the ominous levels of public
: debt accumulated by state governments. The debt is floated
: on bond issues, and someone has to underwrite and guarantee
: those issues. Banks like Goldman Sachs are in that
: business. Trump may have approached Goldman with the
: premise that, by creating whole swaths of new jobs across
: the country, the states' tax revenues will rise, and
: therefore the payback on Goldman's investments will become
: more secure.

: It seems certain that Trump is leaning heavily on Goldman to
: run interference for him. He is walking a risk-laden path.

: Partnering with a vampire squid doesn't inspire confidence.

: Since I began writing and speaking about Trump, I've
: emphasized that his millions of supporters---who actually
: want more freedom and more of what America should stand
: for---have to hold his feet to the fire when he takes a
: direction that spells trouble and runs counter to his
: announced aims.

: He is doing that now.

: Here are two final quotes from Wall Street On Parade:
: "During the primary campaign, when it emerged that
: Trump's opponent Ted Cruz had received a loan from Goldman
: Sachs, Trump said that Cruz was 'owned' by Goldman
: Sachs."

: "During his political campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly
: railed against Wall Street with a specific focus on Goldman
: Sachs. In the final days of his campaign, Trump released an
: advertisement...that featured his opponent, Hillary
: Clinton, shaking hands with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd
: Blankfein. As the image flickers on the screen, Trump does
: a voice over, stating: 'It's a global power structure that
: is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed
: our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and
: put that money into the pockets of a handful of large
: corporations and political entities.' As the ad ends, Trump
: bares his soul: 'I'm doing this for the people and for the
: movement and we will take back this country for you and we
: will make America great again'."

: Has Trump convinced Goldman Sachs they can still make sky-high
: money in a genuinely strong American economy, with millions
: of new jobs? And without fake bubbles and crashes?

: Has he decided he must have Goldman on his side, if he's going
: to make economic progress---that, because of their power,
: there is no way around them?

: Or is Goldman playing along and working Trump and outflanking
: him?

: Finally, I wouldn't bother bringing any of this up if I didn't
: think Trump wants to do good things for this country. I
: have enumerated those intentions of his in other articles.
: Right out front, he continues his war against major media.
: He doesn't let up. This is vital, because those media have
: been functioning as the prime eyes, ears, and mouths of the
: nation---and they are falling rapidly from that precipice.
: Which is a cause for celebration.

: Jon Rappoport

: The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX
: REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE
: MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in
: the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting
: practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the
: expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a
: Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter
: for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and
: health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine,
: Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and
: Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global
: politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences
: around the world.

: You can find this article and more at NoMoreFakeNews.com.