President-Elect Donald Trump’s latest batch of cabinet nominations is drawing fire from liberal media elites with smears like “The wealthiest cabinet in history.” But the frustration over the nominees’ financial success is made humorous when it’s other super wealthy people throwing the fit, such as Al Sharpton during MSNBC’s PoliticsNation on Sunday. “I mean, how concerned… should Democrats be about the fact that all of these multi-corporate connected Wall Street millionaires guys,” he wondered.
Most of Sharpton’s panel seemed to be there to smear Trump’s picks for their wealth, especially MSNBC analyst Joan Walch. She praised the nomination hearings as a time for Democrats to call out Trump perceived broken campaign promises to drain the swap. Ranting about the nomination of Steve Mnuchin for treasury secretary, she argued:
I think Steve Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, Goldman Sachs guy, apparently there is a Trump voter who just discovered that she was evicted by Mnuchin's old company, One West. And she's, you know, despondent that she voted for Trump, she believed his promises, he was going to drain the swamp and now we’ve got Swamp Thing as Treasury Secretary.
The New York Times’ Yamiche Alcindor informed Sharpton that the Democrats she has been in communication with are worried about “People who have run private equity firms, who have all this money, making decisions about people…” A rather bizarre thing to report since the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton received millions in contributions from wealthy financial and Hollywood elitists. There was also no eyes batted in 2008 when then President-Elect Barack Obama was nominating Washington insiders, in fact it was praised.
And in 2008 Goldman Sachs was one of Obama’s top donators with almost $1 million. And Sharpton didn’t seem to care about what Clinton said in paid speeches to the organization when he elected to endorse her for president. It was a perfect time to stand up for the blue collar voters he now claims to care about.
Sharpton then strangely knocked Trump for not nominating any of the blue collar workers who attended his campaign rallies to his cabinet. “What happened to all of the blue collar workers, and all of the people he was rallying in key states, nobody like that is nominated for this cabinet,” he asked.
And upon being informed by Walch that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called Trump’s Carrier deal “crony capitalism,” Sharpton painted her as an idiot, quipping, “Oh really? She figured that out all by herself?”