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Wall Street: The Trump-China missing link

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He is against Cold War 2.0 and the pivot to Asia, when he says "wouldn't it be nice to get along with Russia and China for a change?"

He no less than pre-empted WWIII when he said he would be against a US nuclear first-strike.

He totally abhors global "free trade" -- from NAFTA to TPP and TTIP -- because it has "hollowed out the lives of American workers," as US corporations (under Wall Street's "incentive") delocalize and then import back into the US tariff-free.

Trump was even open to nationalizing Wall Street banks after the 2008 financial crisis.

So we're faced with the ultimate surrealist spectacle of a billionaire denouncing corporate globalization, which has been responsible for stripping the US lower middle classes of countless, decent blue-collar jobs and social benefits -- not to mention turning them into hostages of rotting public infrastructure. And all that with absolutely no one among the US establishment condemning the most astonishing wealth transfer to the 0.0001% in history.

If in the next two presidential debates Trump points to the crucial missing link in the whole plot -- Wall Street -- he might as well lock on as a surefire winner.

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