LE FIGARO. - In 1935, Andrew Mellon, Minister of Finance and extremely wealthy businessman, appeared before the American courts for tax evasion. Last Friday, Donald Trump was convicted of tax fraud. What comparison do you make between these two cases
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Romain HURET. –
The parallel is quite obvious, even if capitalism, political life and the media no longer have anything to do between 1930 and today.
Let us first note the great political and economic power of the two men.
Andrew Mellon is less well known in France, but in the 1930s he was undoubtedly the most powerful man in the United States;
he has extraordinary economic capital – he is the third largest fortune in the country, he has succeeded in banking and industry – and he acquired extraordinary political power by remaining Minister of Finance for eleven years, between 1920 and 1931 This is the man who managed the Treasury in the United States, the debt crisis in Europe and who took charge of the expansion…
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