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Anthony Boynton quotes Mark Lause approvingly: "Although we can only guess based on what we know, Trump's behavior makes him look guilty as hell.... By guilty, I mean deep-rooted financial ties between Trump and his circle with the Russian oligarchs, among others." One thing we have to realize is that in Russia, the "oligarchs" and the Russian mafia are more or less one and the same. And I don't think we really have to "guess" about Trump's connections: Trump IS connected with the Russian mafia, he HAS served as a money launderer for them for years, and there IS so much publicly known evidence that we don't have to "guess". This has been in the public record for at least a year, if not longer. (I wrote about it <https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/04/04/mobster-in-chief-donald-trump-life-imitates-art/> back last April.) It is not surprising that the US capitalist class is trying to avoid the issue. Not only would this depth of criminal behavior of a president be embarrassing to them but, more important it would tend to open up a whole other can of worms: The fact that the real estate industry is rampant with money laundering <https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/06/14/sessions-testifies-stonewalling-continues/> for other such criminal syndicates, especially the drug cartels. Should this start to be exposed in a big way, it could easily lead to a massive political crisis for US capitalism. For one thing, the politics of most major cities are dominated by the real estate industry. Imagine if it came out that the major donors to many mayors and city council members were in effect mobbed up, were involved in such money laundering. So, it's no wonder this is being kept under wraps, but it is quite disconcerting that the socialist left has more or less ignored this. Maybe more of it than we know still has some romantic notions about the original home of the workers state or some such. If that is the issue, then they are living in the past. John Reimann -- *“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” *Sophie Scholl, executed by the Nazis 2/22/1943. She was 21 years old. Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
