First US Presidential Debate Page #6

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When I was in the Senate, I had a number of trade deals that came before me, and I held them all to the same test. Will they create jobs in America? Will they raise incomes in America? And are they good for our national security? Some of them I voted for. The biggest one, a multinational one known as CAFTA, I voted against. And because I hold the same standards as I look at all of these trade deals.

But let’s not assume that trade is the only challenge we have in the economy. I think it is a part of it, and I’ve said what I’m going to do. I’m going to have a special prosecutor. We’re going to enforce the trade deals we have, and we’re going to hold people accountable.

When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent. So I know how to really work to get new jobs and to get exports that helped to create more new jobs.

HOLT:
Very quickly…

TRUMP:
But you haven’t done it in 30 years or 26 years or any number you want to…

CLINTON:
Well, I’ve been a senator, Donald…

TRUMP:
You haven’t done it. You haven’t done it.

CLINTON:
And I have been a secretary of state…

TRUMP:
Excuse me.

CLINTON:
And I have done a lot…

TRUMP:
Your husband signed NAFTA, which was one of the worst things that ever happened to the manufacturing industry.

CLINTON:
Well, that’s your opinion. That is your opinion.

TRUMP:
You go to New England, you go to Ohio, Pennsylvania, you go anywhere you want, Secretary Clinton, and you will see devastation where manufacture is down 30, 40, sometimes 50 percent. NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.

And now you want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership. You were totally in favor of it. Then you heard what I was saying, how bad it is, and you said, I can’t win that debate. But you know that if you did win, you would approve that, and that will be almost as bad as NAFTA. Nothing will ever top NAFTA.

CLINTON:
Well, that is just not accurate. I was against it once it was finally negotiated and the terms were laid out. I wrote about that in…

TRUMP:
You called it the gold standard.

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP:
You called it the gold standard of trade deals. You said it’s the finest deal you’ve ever seen.

CLINTON:
No.

TRUMP:
And then you heard what I said about it, and all of a sudden you were against it.

CLINTON:
Well, Donald, I know you live in your own reality, but that is not the facts. The facts are — I did say I hoped it would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated…

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