<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: BebasNeueRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 43.20000076293945px;" class=""><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/05/exclusive-donald-trump-smashes-obamatrade-after-team-obama-just-signed-in-new-zealand-its-a-terrible-deal/" class="">http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/05/exclusive-donald-trump-smashes-obamatrade-after-team-obama-just-signed-in-new-zealand-its-a-terrible-deal/</a></span></h1><h1 itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; font-family: BebasNeueRegular, sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 0.9em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);" class="">Exclusive — ‘It’s A Terrible Deal,’ Donald Trump Says About Just-Signed Obamatrade</h1><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><header class="articleheader" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="byline"><span class="by-author"><span class="by">by</span> <a class="byauthor" href="http://www.breitbart.com/author/matthew-boyle/">MATTHEW BOYLE</a></span><span class="bydate">5 Feb 2016</span><span class="bycity">Washington, DC</span><a rel="nofollow" class="bycount" href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/05/exclusive-donald-trump-smashes-obamatrade-after-team-obama-just-signed-in-new-zealand-its-a-terrible-deal/#disqus_thread" data-disqus-identifier="2951373 http://www.breitbart.com/?p=2951373">1,924</a></p></header><div class="entry-content" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><h2 class="">Donald Trump, currently leading in New Hampshire polling ahead of this coming Tuesday’s primaries, tells Breitbart News exclusively that the just-signed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Pacific rim trade agreement is a “terrible deal.”</h2><p class="">“It’s like all deals that the United States makes under this president, it’s a terrible deal,” Trump said when asked to react to the news that President Barack Obama’s U.S. Trade Representative just inked the deal officially in Auckland, New Zealand.</p><blockquote class=""><p class="">It’s going to allow countries to continue to take advantage of us and take our jobs, take our trade. It’s bad for us. It’ll allow China to come in through the back door at a later date and continue to really do a number on us, and it doesn’t take into account money manipulation—manipulation or devaluation of currency, which is the single biggest tool that countries use against us. It’s a terrible deal.</p></blockquote><p class="">Trump also hit former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—who used to favor the TPP portion of Obamatrade, but now says she opposes the highly unpopular deal even though she helped negotiate it—for flip-flopping to oppose the deal. In Thursday evening’s Democratic debate, Clinton re-expressed her newfound opposition to Obamatrade’s TPP, but she used to be in favor of it heavily.</p><p class="">“So she’s against it in violation of the president, who’s for it?” Trump told Breitbart News.</p><blockquote class=""><p class="">Wow. If she’s against it, she’s right—one of the few things she differs on the president with. If she’s against it, she’s right. She was for it, against it, for it and now she’s against it. Look, it’s a very bad deal for the United States. It’s a deal which will cause us further erosion of our jobs, our good jobs, and further erosion of our manufacturing. It’s a terrible deal for the United States. And it doesn’t discuss—the biggest problem is devaluation, currency manipulation, which is their greatest asset.</p></blockquote><p class="">Trump also explained exactly how he plans to to stop China from devaluing currency. He said the United States, because of weak leaders, has not used the “great power”—or leverage—it has over China to prevent the Asian powerhouse nation from wealth theft from America.</p><p class="">“What you have to do, China is the king of devaluation and monetary manipulation,” Trump said when asked about his plans to block currency manipulation on the world stage.</p><blockquote class=""><p class="">Nobody does it better, more deftly, more magnificently, than China. And China has taken advantage of the United States for years and we don’t even know what’s happening. We’re like a bunch of dummies that don’t have a clue. What’s happened and what happens is we have a great power over China because they get rich off the United States because they sell their product here. So if we had strong leadership, we’d use that power to stop their devaluation very simply. But they just did it again. They just did the biggest devaluation in 20 years. And now I understand they’re going to devalue again. It’s actually hard to believe.</p></blockquote><p class="">More from Trump’s exclusive interview with Breitbart News ahead of the New Hampshire primaries is forthcoming.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 itemprop="headline" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;" class=""><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/clinton-waited-oppose-tpp-because-i-did-want-give-benefit-doubt" class="">http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/clinton-waited-oppose-tpp-because-i-did-want-give-benefit-doubt</a></span></h1><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><h1 class="page-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 36px; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-bottom: 9px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Clinton Waited to Oppose TPP ‘Because I Did Want to Give the Benefit of The Doubt to the Administration’</h1><div class="region region-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><section id="block-system-main" class="block block-system clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="node-443415" class="clearfix node node-article" about="/news/article/patrick-goodenough/clinton-waited-oppose-tpp-because-i-did-want-give-benefit-doubt" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="authors" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; clear: both; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">By <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/author/patrick-goodenough" title="View user profile." class="username" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 82, 145); text-decoration: none;">Patrick Goodenough</a> | February 5, 2016 | 4:25 AM EST</div></div></section></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hillary Clinton said in Thursday’s Democratic primary debate in New Hampshire that she waited to see the outcome of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership before coming out in opposition – although as secretary of state she voiced enthusiasm for the trade deal on numerous occasions.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">“I did hope that the TPP, negotiated by this administration, would put to rest a lot of the concerns that many people have expressed about trade agreements,” she said.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">“And I said that I was holding out that hope that it would be the kind of trade agreement that I was looking for. I waited until it had actually been negotiated because I did want to give the benefit of the doubt to the administration. Once I saw what the outcome was, I opposed it.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Clinton served as secretary of state for four years, beginning on 21, 2009. The first formal round of negotiations for the TPP began in March 2010, and during Clinton’s tenure a further 15 rounds – out of a total 19 – were held.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">(The 19 formal rounds were followed by a series of meetings at chief negotiator and ministerial levels, culminating in final agreement last October. The TPP was signed in New Zealand on Thursday.)<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">As secretary of state, Clinton frequently spoke favorably about the TPP – which groups the U.S. with 11 other nations on either side of the Pacific – on one occasion saying on a visit to Australia in late 2012 that it set “the gold standard in trade agreements.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Elsewhere during that same visit, Clinton said the TPP “will lower trade barriers, raise labor and environmental standards, and drive growth across the region.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">And days later in Singapore – another TPP partner – she said the trade deal “will cover 40 percent of the world’s total trade and establish strong protections for workers and the environment. Better jobs with higher wages and safer working conditions, including for women, migrant workers and others too often in the past excluded from the formal economy will help build Asia’s middle class and rebalance the global economy.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Clinton formally declared her campaign for the presidency on April 12, 2015.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Three months later she declared her opposition to the TPP.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Last June CNN published an article listing 45 times Clinton voiced support for the TPP between January 2010 and the end of her tenure at the State Department.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Thursday night, MSNBC’s Chuck Todd recalled that Clinton had supported the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1990s but then opposed it when running for president in 2008.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Noting that she now opposes the TPP, he asked whether Democrats could expect that once she is in the White House she would support it again.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Although she did not answer the question directly, she did say that “there are changes that I believe would make a real difference if they could be achieved, but I do not currently support it as it is written.”<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said last October that the TPP would not be open for renegotiation.</div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>