If Trump wants peace with Russia, the Secretary of State is the important appointment. If Trump wants to stop the Oligarchy's rip-off of the American people, the Secretary of the Treasury is the important appointment.
Under the last three presidents, treasury secretaries have been agents for the banks-too-big-to-fail and for Wall Street. It is now a tradition for the financial gangsters to own the Treasury. It remains to be seen if the tradition is too strong for Trump to break.
The Oligarchy is trying to discredit the Trump Presidency before it exists. This effort is discrediting liberal and progressive groups by identifying them with non-enforcement of the immigration laws and with homosexual and transgender rights, issues not on the agenda of an electorate whose economic fortunes have been declining and who are tired of 15 years of war that serves only the hegemony agenda of the neoconservatives and the profits and power of the military/security complex.
According to The Saker, Putin has begun removing the Atlanticist Integrationists, Russia's Fifth Column, from influence. Let's see if Trump can remove our fifth columnists -- neoconservatives and neoliberal economists -- who have sold out the American people and America's integrity.
If Trump fails, the only solution is for the American people to become more radical.
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