Paul Singer No Longer One Of President Trump’s Many Enemies
ByThe President of the United States held a press conference today. Perhaps you have heard about. It was certainly quite a show. Ostensibly, it was held to introduce his new pick for labor secretary, Alex Acosta, since his first pick didn’t pan out so well. And sure enough, President Trump spent exactly 100 words on the subject to open things up. Then he spent an hour-and-a-half rambling about how his mess of an administration is a “fine-tuned machine,” whining about how mean people are to him and dismissing the growing reports of contacts between his campaign and Russia as “fake news.” In between, however, he took a moment to talk about Paul Singer, who had just paid him a courtesy call. The same Paul Singer who called a Trump presidency “close to a guarantee of a global depression” before gingerly getting on board the Trump train after the election…