of doing something that the leadership of both parties has basically said to them it s not okay for you to want that. it s not okay for you to want to deport these people and trump is playing to that and he s playing to it perfectly in terms of his attitude and everything else. the challenge for jeb is how do you relate to somebody like that who s running for president in a completely different way than what you would expect them to do if he was a serious candidate. what s important about what ben said and i recommend what he wrote in the federalist about this is that it s people who are hearing that you can t want this from republican leaders. from corporations. so they re just as mad at big corporations and republicans as they are at democrats for that. which very nicely cues up our next topic. joy reid, ben domenech, thank you very much. donald trump has played the role of what we might call a donor class traitor, scourge of fellow oligarchs pointing out that wealthy people,
businesses and republican establishments trade campaign donations for political favors and aren t in step with the base. this afternoon, he tweeted out a link to a piece from the international business time concerning the cozy relationship between politicians and wall street. one that happened to include jeb bush. it talks about how lehman brothers was put in charge of $250 million worth of florida s pension funds. then in 2007 just as he left office bush secured a job as a lehman consultant for $1.3 million a year. after that lehman went on to manage $1.2 billion of florida s money, a decision that proved disastrous when lehman went bankrupt in 2008. pointing to that story wasn t the only dig trump made at the donor class. in an interview yesterday he went after hedge fund guys for not paying enough in taxes. they re paying nothing and it s ridiculous. i want to save the middle-class. the hedge fund guys didn t build this country. these are guys that shift paper around and get luc
tariffs and these different approaches and they re in favor of doing something that the leadership of both parties has basically said to them it s not okay for you to want that. it s not okay for you to want to deport these people and trump is playing to that and he s playing to it perfectly in terms of his attitude and everything else. the challenge for jeb is how do you relate to somebody like that who s running for president in a completely different way than what you would expect them to do if he was a serious candidate. what s important about what ben said and i recommend what he wrote in the federalist about this is that it s people who are hearing that you can t want this from republican leaders. from corporations. so they re just as mad at big corporations and republicans as they are at democrats for that. which very nicely cues up our next topic. joy reid, ben domenech, thank you very much. donald trump has played the role of what we might call a donor class traitor, s