Financial fraudsters as whip: Irritating CDU video surfaced

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In the run-up to the triell on Sunday evening, the CDU heated up employees and supporters with an irritating video. The focus: financial fraudster Jordan Belfort.

Before Olaf Scholz, Annalena Baerbock and Armin Laschet triumphed live on Sunday evening on ARD and ZDF, the CDU used the opportunity at its party headquarters to get employees and supporters in the mood. The way in which she did that is currently causing head shaking. Because the motivational video that was shown for this purpose was a new subtitled speech from the Martin Scorcese biopic The Wolf of Wall Street. The heat-up: Leonardo DiCaprio in the role of the financial fraudster Jordan Belfort.

In the subtitles of the 40-second clip it says, for example: “Smurfed, dear Olaf” or “Let’s go out now and let’s convince the people with Armin Laschet and if necessary we will force it”, like Vice reports. The cheering and applause of those present can be heard in the background. The video was initially posted by the CDU Saxony, but was later deleted. However, it continues to circulate on social media. According to a CDU spokesman, this should not be an official party video. Laschet himself had not been in the house when the video was shown.

The question that not only the Vice colleagues are asking is: How can it be explained that the CDU, which has recently been battered by a series of smaller and larger corruption scandals, relies on Jordan Belfort of all people. The so-called Wolf of Wall Street had earned a million dollar fortune as a stock trader with his company Stratton Oakmont in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but in some cases ripped off his customers.

Investors are said to have suffered damage of over 200 million US dollars have arisen. Belfort was sentenced to four years in prison in 1998 for securities fraud and money laundering. Part of his punishment is that Belfort has to repay the injured party 110 million dollars, of which only a fraction has been paid so far.

Incidentally, Laschet was unable to win the triumph, in which the candidates for the Chancellery exchanged blows on TV, on the contrary. According to survey of the research group Elections among the viewers entitled to vote: Olaf Scholz was the best for 32 percent of the TV trio. 26 percent saw Annalena Baerbock as their favorite for the Triell victory. Armin Laschet was only third with 20 percent.