- May 06, 2015 -
Donald Trump: Don’t Give Obama Fast-Track Trade Authority
Real estate mogul and businessman Donald Trump is jumping into the debate over the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and the authority to fast-track the deal – calling it a "bad, bad deal" and slamming President Barack Obama and Republicans who support it.
The six-figure radio ad, posted by the Daily Caller Wednesday and paid for by the group Americans for Limited Government, will begin running Thursday in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and go national on Monday, the Daily Caller reports.
"While I'm a Republican, right now, some in the Republican Party are working overtime to hand more power to President Obama," Trump proclaims. "These same people are turning their backs on the American workers and businesses. It's unbelievable."
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was drafted and signed in 2005, but other countries began negotiating for inclusion after that and now 12 are working to come to an agreement that would, according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, "boost U.S. economic growth, support American jobs, and grow Made-in-America exports to some of the most dynamic and fastest growing countries in the world.
"I learned a long time ago, a bad deal is far worse than no deal at all," Trump declares in the ad. "And the Obama Trans-Pacific Partnership and fast-track are a bad, bad deal for American businesses, for workers, for taxpayers. It's a huge set of handouts for a few insiders that don't even care about our great, great America."
