28.07.2016 - 08:31 [ Techdirt ]

Clinton Friend Admits What Everyone Knows Is True: Clinton Still Supports TPP & Will Back It

If you‘ve followed the whole TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) thing at all, and/or the Presidential election this year, you probably already know that Hillary Clinton famously flip-flopped on TPP. She was for it, before she was against it (and tried to rewrite history to hide her support of it). Of course, basically everyone recognized that her newfound concerns about TPP were made up, as a response to (at the time) surging support for Bernie Sanders, who was vocally against the agreement. But, of course, as tons of people have been saying all along, everyone expects that after the election she‘ll magically flip flop back to supporting TPP.

But, of course, because we‘re doing this big elaborate stage play called an election, no one‘s supposed to admit that‘s what‘s happening. Someone apparently forgot to tell that to Terry McAuliffe, current Virginia governor and long term best buddies with the Clintons. On Tuesday, he said what everyone already knows: Clinton will absolutely support the TPP after the election: