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Today we learned that Jim Donovan, a 25-year Goldman Sachs banking and investment management executive, is pulling out as Trump’s nominee to serve as Deputy Treasury Secretary. Why? “Family concerns.” That may be true, but it’s also likely that he’s rich and doesn’t want to divest everything he owns just to be a deputy in a dysfunctional administration where he could get fired at any moment if the president gets annoyed with him.
In other news, I’ve removed Sebastian Gorka from the dead pool since he still seems to be around. I’ll put him back if and when he takes a position elsewhere in the administration that’s allegedly more important than being on the president’s staff.
