This is a real crisis both for the US capitalist class and for Trump. Every night CNN has over an hour raking Trump over the coals over this “Russia” issue. Much of the issue revolves around the claim that the Russian regime hacked into computers here involved in the election process and tried to influence the outcome. It wouldn’t at all surprise me if that is what happened. After all, the US government has done everything it can to get the results they want in other countries, so why wouldn’t the Russian government do the same?
Beneath this, though, are all the ties and secret meetings that one Trump associate after another are now being

Evidently Trump has already filed for reelection. This is unprecedented at this stage of his presidency… but it allows him to start collecting bribes, known as campaign donations.
revealed to exist. One of the latest is the secret meetings between Trump’s son-in-law, Kushner, and among other things some Russian banker. Kushner is an official “special advisor” to the president. In my opinion, he is Trump’s bag man. Beneath this, I think Trump is using his position to further enrich himself to an unheard of degree. Doing so has always been the “American Way”. In part, that’s what the talk about “special interests” is about — that different politicians are in the pocket of different particular capitalist interests and this makes it difficult for them to act in the fullest interests of the US capitalist class as a whole. Of course, when push comes to shove, they will band together, for instance in a war situation.

Connections between Trump associates and Russian capitalist class. The one thing this graphic doesn’t show is the direct links between Trump and Russian financiers. See: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/02/16/the-trump-putin-connection/
But in Trump’s case, push has come to shove, and he’s so deeply connected with Russian financiers and bankers that he cannot disentangle himself, even if he wanted to. But this idiotic, short sighted plunderer probably doesn’t even want to, even if it weren’t too late. That makes the mainstream of the US capitalist class very nervous that in a crisis with Russian capitalism he will not act in their interests.
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