Friday, July 28, 2017

Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s New Communications Director, Said Citizens United Made Possible a “Sleeper Cell” of Hedge Fund Managers

https://theintercept.com/2017/07/21/anthony-scaramucci-trumps-new-communications-director-said-citizens-united-made-possible-a-sleeper-cell-of-hedge-fund-managers/
"Here’s what Scaramucci said about Citizens United, himself, and Cooperman: Scaramucci, the organizer of the dinner, told me the next day that the guests had witnessed the “activation” of a “sleeper cell” of hedge-fund managers against Obama. “That’s what you see happening in the hedge-fund community, because they now have the power, because of Citizens United, to aggregate capital into political-action committees and to influence the debate,” he said. “The president has a philosophy of disdain toward wealth creation. That’s just obvious, O.K.? We talked about it all night.” He later said, “If there’s a pope of this movement, it’s Lee Cooperman"."

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