What kind of distraction would best divert attention from lying to Congress about lifting Russian Sanctions?
Make POTUS*’s daughter the head of the World Bank.
Just when you thought Steve Mnuchin’s poor performance testifying before Congress might be indicative of a cover-up of a payoff to Russian oligarch(s), some press flak at Treasury decided to try another ploy to tank the global stock markets.
Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump and a White House adviser, is being floated as a possible president of the World Bank, the Financial Times reported without attribution.
The report said other names "floating around Washington" include Treasury official David Malpass, former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, and Mark Green, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The Treasury Department says it's beginning the process to make a selection, which typically but doesn't have to go to an American. Non-American alternatives include Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Rwandan economist Donald Kaberuka and Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the report said.
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It’s not the first time Mnuchin has tried this stunt, but it is interesting in how it closely follows yesterday’s shitshow on the Hill.
Remember how there was considerable work done in 2017 to get her to pimp the World Bank with a $100 million Saudi/UAE payoff.
“This is one of the worst classified briefings we’ve received from the Trump administration.”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi complained afterward that “the secretary barely testified.”
“With stiff competition, mind you, this is one of the worst classified briefings we’ve received from the Trump administration,” she told reporters.
Mnuchin told reporters that he was “shocked” Pelosi was disappointed. In a statement earlier on Thursday, he said that the deal agreed to by Deripaska’s companies assures that he will not control them.