13 months ago, Snowden tweeted that the 20l6 election would be between Donald Trump
and Goldman Sachs.
(Since then, of course, DT has filled his cabinet with Goldman Sachs alumni.)
Who doesn't believe that Snowden is one of Putin's puppets?
https://www.bustle.com/articles/199375-edward-snowden-was-half-right-about-goldman-sachs-the-election
There are ironies aplenty in the aftermath of the 2016 election, not the least of which is Trump’s economic populism increasingly proving to be a total farce. But Snowden’s tweet — made in the early days of the Democratic primary, when Clinton was running against actual populist Bernie Sanders — underscores the extent to which she was held to a higher standard. Can we imagine, for a moment, a reverse scenario where Clinton tried to appoint someone loosely affiliated with Goldman Sachs to her cabinet? I truly believe that everyone right of Maureen Dowd would go wrong-holy-grail-drinker over it.
In fact, if you’ll indulge me in a bit of alternate-reality fantasy, I think the pressure on a President-elect Clinton to choose an economic outsider would have been so great that she would have never been able to appoint someone affiliated with the big banks. Snowden’s blithe assertion that Clinton was synonymous with the big banks became an underlying refrain of Trump’s and the race writ large.
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