Donald Trump Had a Very Different Message About Trade Before He Ran For President

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Time

In a blog post written just three years ago, Trump called for global unity and international economic interdependence, writing that there were important opportunities to do business in Europe. And in a 2005 essay, Trump said that outsourcing jobs is “not always a terrible thing,” arguing for a more nuanced view of shipping jobs out of the United States.

Trump’s views in those two posts bear little resemblance to his apocalyptic view of globalization today. Though Trump has long railed against bad trade deals, his call on Tuesday for America to cut off much of its commerce with the rest of the world is at odds with his past optimism about international economic cooperation.

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, Trump wrote in 2013 said that businesses could work in a more unified world. Trump advocated for “global unity” and abandoning borders. “We will have to leave borders behind and go for global unity when it comes to financial stability,” Trump wrote.

“The near meltdown we experienced a few years ago made it clear that our economic health depended on dependence on each other to do the right thing,” he wrote. “We are now closer to having an economic community in the best sense of the term—we work with each other for the benefit of all.”

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[world wide wally]

1. He's a world class liar

[Sunlei]

2. republicans always have a different agenda then the agenda they present to scam for votes.

[TomCADem]

3. Faustian Bargain - Cater to Racism in Exchange for Tax Breaks for the Wealthy

That is the basic exchange. Even the religious right was born out of the effort to combat the desegragation of Bob Jones University.

[Sunlei]

6. republicans know our one vote is the only democracy the USA has, elected they can do what they want

That's why they focus tremendous amounts of money & time on the votes/voting systems/mapping at the most local of levels.

[greymattermom]

4. If he really wrote that a few years ago

his language use has deteriorated a lot. Has anyone looked into that?

[kimbutgar]

7. Either someone else wrote it and gave him credit or he is in the early stages of dementia

[PatSeg]

8. I've seen video clips of Trump

from the 80s and 90s, and he really sounded relatively normal. He spoke in complete sentences, didn't repeat the same words over and over again, and had a bigger vocabulary. I really think there is something wrong with him and early stages of dementia might explain it. Or perhaps advanced stages of assholery?

[Botany]

5. keep talking Don

[lark]

9. He was for it before he was against it.

Being against it is the big lie, IMO. Earlier he said that American businesses needed help competing, that only when our workers were "directly competing" with those in China would we be successful. So he wants US workers to be paid almost nothing, like those in China, so the biggest companies can make out like bandits. How does that square with his earlier writings and what he's saying now? It doesn't at all because he's lying his little head off. He doesn't give one damn about American workers, it's all about what will make him richer, that's all he cares about. I just hope the American voter isn't stupid enough to believe these lies and make Drumpf president. I don't think they will, think when they see all the HRC advertisements pointing out the deliberate lies of Drumpf, it will change enough minds that he loses and really badly. At least that's what I hope and pray for.

[Night Watchman]

10. Donald Trump Had a Very Different Message About EVERYTHING

This ain't surprising.

[Angry Dragon]

11. WHAT??.......... A republican speaking from both ends??

Happens all the time