“You know what?” Trump said at the end of what had become an hour-long meeting. “I hired the wrong guy for treasury secretary. You should be treasury secretary. You would be the best treasury secretary.” Mnuchin, right there, didn’t say a thing or show any reaction. “Come back and tell me what you want,” Trump said. “You’d be great to have on the team. It’d be fantastic.” Five minutes later while Cohn was still in the building, he saw a television flash breaking news: President-elect Trump has selected Steve Mnuchin as treasury secretary. “That’s crazy,” Jared said. “Mnuchin just put that out.
...more
