Oops: The White House Just Called Hillary Out, And Now She’s Caught In A Lie
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This isn't going to look good at all.
During Tuesday’s Democratic primary debate, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton spoke out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that the Obama administration has put forward.
”I did say, when I was secretary of state, three years ago, that I hoped it would be the gold standard. It was just finally negotiated last week, and in looking at it, it didn’t meet my standards,” she said on the stage in Las Vegas. “My standards for more new, good jobs for Americans, for raising wages for Americans.”
Those comments were called into question the next day by the same White House Clinton used to serve.
Apparently, they’re patently false. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday that no one in the public has seen the agreement because it has not been yet made available for review.
At a White House news briefing, Earnest was asked point-blank by a reporter: “Is it possible that [Clinton]’s actually looked at it? because I thought it hasn’t been made public?”
His response was, “Yeah, I noticed that, too.”
When Earnest was asked if he thought Clinton’s opposition to the trade agreement seemed “phony” in light of her support for it when she was secretary of state, he responded, “I don’t think I have minced any words that we have a disagreement on this issue…”
Earnest directed that further questions about Clinton be directed to her campaign.
Clinton’s opponents don’t need to consult with her campaign to come to their own conclusions. When she announced her opposition to the deal on Oct. 7, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley issued statements mocking her change of heart.
“Wow, that’s a reversal,” O’Malley said.
Business Insider’s Colin Campbell reported that, “When Clinton served in President Barack Obama’s administration, she used to extensively praise the Pacific trade deal. Indeed, CNN once counted up 45 times she pushed the agreement.”
So she was for the trade deal before she was against it.
Can Hillary Clinton be trusted when she changes her mind so often?
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