Goldman Sachs is officially Team Clinton

Goldman Sachs bans employees from donating to Donald Trump.
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Partners at Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs are free to support the candidate of their choice in the 2016 presidential election — as long as that candidate isn't Donald Trump. Per an internal memo which went to top executives at the bank last week, partners "are prohibited from engaging in political activities and/or making campaign contributions to candidates running for state and local offices, as well as sitting state and local officials running for federal office."

As critics have been quick to point out, that strikes out the Trump/Pence campaign, as vice presidential nominee Mike Pence is currently serving as governor of Indiana, while leaving support for Hillary Clinton — long known to be a Wall Street favorite — on the table. Making bad optics worse, the memo specifically mentions Trump/Pence as its sole specific example of an off-limits campaign.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.