This is going to set up an epic battle between Trump and sensible people.
If the Republicans side with Trump, this will be a big issue in the mid-terms, and it will favor Democrats.
Trump: I want a market crash so that I can buy stocks for pennies on the $$. No one can stop me,
Knowing Trump, it’ll probably be Bernie Madoff or Steve Cohen. Think of any disgraced financial predator and that guy automatically rises to the top of the list. And McConnell’s Senate will love it.
Every time Trump nominates to fill a post, I feel like David Copperfield when his mother remarries.
Coming soon to a consumer protection bureau near you:
Fox Meets Henhouse, Part 784
“This Time, It’s Personal–Again!”
This would be a perfect time to pardon Bernie Madoff and appoint him to the post. It’d be consistent with all his other appointments.
Ah, @pshah beat me to it.
since he as one or two Uriah Heeps on his staff, that is no surprise
In other words, between Trump and everybody else, excluding the people who voted for him.
Beat me too. Trump will find somebody so dirty. Bernie Madoff will look like a Saint.
The big story is that Trump will try to appoint Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the CFPB and bypass senate confirmation. But that won’t work because it’s illegal. This story in The Intercept explains why.
The latest ploy is to leave the top spot vacant and replace the person in the #2 position. These guys act like guilty swindlers every day, in plain sight.
Trump appoints people who are diametrically opposed to the mission of the agency (Scott Pruitt), or clowns (Ben Carson). I think we are due for a clown.
This guy.
Right from central casting, just the way Trump likes 'em.
Steve Minutiae’s wife. She is a major consumer as she tells us in great details with photos
So some one not at all on the consumer’s side.
When will Trump learn, and the Republicans stand firm, that Trump is not King of the U.S. of A.?
We now have TWO acting directors. Should be interesting.