DOJ Fails to Prosecute White-Collar Crime

In his first campaign for the White House, Donald Trump stoked voters’ rage against the widely perceived sellout of the government to corporations. His final ad before the 2016 election featured scenes of everyday working-class Americans interspersed with clips of the Clintons, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Lloyd Blankfein and other icons of the economic and political elite. The commercial looked like something Bernie Sanders could have produced, except the voice-over was unmistakably Trump’s, warning of the “global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our economy of its wealth and ...