Gary Rivlin, Michael Hudson Part 2 - GOLDMAN ALWAYS WINS Goldman Sachs had been a favorite cudgel for candidate Trump — the symbol of a government that favors Wall Street over its citizenry. Trump proclaimed that Hillary Clinton was in the firm’s pockets, as was Ted Cruz. It was Goldman Sachs that Trump singled out when he railed against a system rigged in favor of the global elite — one that “ robbed our working class, stripped our country of wealth, and put money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities. ” Cohn, as president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs, had been at the heart of it all. Aggressive and relentless, a former aluminum siding salesman and commodities broker with a nose for making money, Cohn had turned Goldman’s sleepy home loan unit into what a Senate staffer called “ one of the largest mortgage trading desks in the world. ” There, he aggressively pushed his sales team to sell mortgage-backed securiti