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For several days now, a broad campaign has been underway in the U.S. media to discredit Donald Trump, the current favorite from the Republican Party, by portraying him as Vladimir Putin’s best friend.

All of their previous attempts, in which they’ve made use of Trump’s rather politically incorrect statements about illegal immigrants, Muslims, journalists, and some of his opponents, have been unsuccessful.

A state of near panic prevails within the party’s leadership. Trump is an absolutely unacceptable figure for them since he isn’t a professional politician and refuses to play by the established rules – and doesn’t hesitate to say so openly.

Here, for example, is a quote from his recent performance in the debates: “We have spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people that, frankly, if we could have spent that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges and all of the other problems, our airports and all of the other problems we have, we would have been a lot better off. I can tell you that right now. We have done a tremendous disservice not only to the Middle East. We’ve done a tremendous disservice to humanity.”

Trump has called Jeb Bush, the establishment’s protégé, “dumb as a rock,” while advising Sen. McCain not to make himself out to be a Vietnam War hero.

The party elites are also infuriated that Trump isn’t dependent on the party’s financial support and is therefore capable of pursuing independent politics.

In such a situation, any dirt on Trump is worth its weight in gold, and that’s why Putin’s absolutely benign comments about Trump’s talent but at the same time about Russia’s readiness to work with any president elected by the American people has literally blown up the domestic media.

Now the attacks against Trump are no longer only because of his rejection of political correctness. He’s also being accused of friendship with Vladimir Putin.

For the time being, none of it is having a negative effect on Trump’s poll numbers. In fact, they’ve even risen by a few points to 38 percent. All of his opponents are far behind.

In any case, it’s clear that the current presidential race in America will be highly entertaining and unpredictable.

One can only say there’s a high probability that there won’t be yet another Bush in the White House, since Jeb doesn’t generate any enthusiasm among people, doesn’t put forward any new ideas, and constantly changes his opinion besides. For example, at first he defended his brother’s decision to invade Iraq, then agreed that it was a mistake, and in the latest debates he again said it was all within reason.

Accordingly, his poll numbers hover around 5-7 percent, and even then only because of an endless stream of TV ads. Bush can afford it since there’s more than $100 million in his election fund, but I don’t think it will help him.