The Roots of Trump's Trade Rage
The Davos set ignored the warning signs for
years. Now, global elites are rightly worried about what comes next.
For more than three decades, Donald Trump
has made it clear that, if ever elected president, he would turn U.S.
trade policy in a radically different direction. And he himself would be
at the helm. “What I would do if elected president would be to appoint
myself U.S. Trade Representative,” he wrote in his 2000 book The America
We Deserve, when he was considering a run for president on the Reform
Party ticket. “My lawyers have checked, and the president has this
authority. I would take personal charge of negotiations…. Our trading
partners would have to sit across the table from Donald Trump and I
guarantee you the rip-off of the United States would end.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/the-roots-of-trumps-trade-rage-214639
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