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TexasTowelie

(112,387 posts)
Thu Jan 31, 2019, 09:17 PM Jan 2019

Heidi Cruz talked to Trump about World Bank president job

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump interviewed Heidi Cruz, the wife of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, for the World Bank president job this week, but passed her over for the position, a spokeswoman for the Texas Republican said Wednesday.

Heidi Cruz, 46, reportedly met in the Oval Office with Trump on Monday, following meetings last week with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House advisor Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter. She also

The Trump interview, first reported by Bloomberg News, came after she was approached by the administration early in the search process that started this month with the announced departure of current World Bank president Jim Yong Kim.

A Harvard Business School graduate and Goldman Sachs managing director, Heidi Cruz is known to have strong ties both in the banking industry and in the Treasury Department, where she ran a Latin America group.

Read more: https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/politics/article/Heidi-Cruz-talked-to-Trump-about-World-Bank-13578332.php

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Heidi Cruz talked to Trump about World Bank president job (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2019 OP
trumps worried teds gonna primary him... samnsara Jan 2019 #1
He got off on interviewing her then turning her down. Like with RMoney Marcuse Jan 2019 #2
The Buffoon-in-chief insulted her looks DonaldsRump Jan 2019 #3
"Leave Heidi the hell alone!" JDC Jan 2019 #4
Yeah, Ted and Heidi Cruz: People of principle. Paladin Feb 2019 #5

samnsara

(17,634 posts)
1. trumps worried teds gonna primary him...
Thu Jan 31, 2019, 09:28 PM
Jan 2019

...dont these people have any sense of pride? Hes literally BUYING loyalty...

Marcuse

(7,506 posts)
2. He got off on interviewing her then turning her down. Like with RMoney
Thu Jan 31, 2019, 09:41 PM
Jan 2019

Last edited Thu Jan 31, 2019, 10:55 PM - Edit history (1)

May have even grabbed her to demonstrate type A dominance like Caligula.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
3. The Buffoon-in-chief insulted her looks
Thu Jan 31, 2019, 09:44 PM
Jan 2019

and said her father-in-law was involved in JFK's assassination. First, husband Ted and now wife Heidi grovel at this fool's feet.

Both the Buffoon-in-chief and Heidi (as well as her husband and the entire cast of clowns) are, without doubt, the biggest (and in Trump's case, that is literal) hypocrites ever.

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