Steve Mnuchin breaks out the checkbook
CNN
When Donald Trump was president I typed the name Steven Mnuchin so many times that I never had to question whether I was spelling it right.
After Donald Trump’s presidency ended, his Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, did what many former Cabinet members do after they stop serving: take a vacation from the public spotlight. Typically, when they get bored of that and worry they’re no longer relevant, they start doing TV interviews, fireside chats, joining company boards and becoming adjunct professors. What they don’t tend to do is throw a $1 billion Hail Mary to a bank that’s the Wall Street version of the dog in the comic-turned-iconic “this is fine” meme (see here if you have no clue what I am referencing). And what they certainly don’t do just one week later is announce they’re interested in buying TikTok. But Mnuchin is having a moment. Again. Nine months after President Joe Biden was inaugurated and Mnuchin left the Treasury Building, Mnuchin formed a new private equity group, Liberty Strategic Capital. His firm bills itself as “focused on investing in dynamic global technology companies.”