Top U.S. labor leader blasts Trump on trade in dueling speech

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Source: Reuters via Philadelphia Inquirer

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka - a top ally of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton - said at a trade conference in Washington that, at Trump campaign stops in the Rust Belt states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, voters should expect to hear "crocodile tears about lost jobs and shuttered factories."

"Trump embodies everything that is wrong with our current trade policy. He has consistently sent American jobs overseas to line his own pockets," Trumka said, apparently referring to Trump-branded products such as suits and ties that are made abroad.

Trumka's rebuke occurred just hours before the New York businessman was slated to make a speech attacking Clinton's record on trade, followed by a stop in Ohio.

Read more: was the gatekeeper on a lot of things were other justices kow-towing? was the intellectual force of his arguments so persuasive? I think he enjoyed his job and made them laugh, which means they went along with him. Only RBG seemed able to disagree with his methods

[tonyt53]

1. I watched Trump and the reaction on FoxNews! Simply preaching to the choir.

He blamed everything on Democrats and even blamed Bill Clinton for the WTO accepting China - only thing is, that was in late 2001 and then at the strong urging of Bush II. Trump said he wants to make America wealthy again. I thought it was, but with most of the wealth concentrated among a few. Utter nonsense and typical, but it was just what his followers wanted to hear.

[Cryptoad]

3. We dont need ur support of Trump here!

[FairWinds]

6. I've been a Dem for 45 years .

how about you?

Suggest you work on your reading comprehension.

[geek tragedy]

4. Trump rode bigotry, not trade nt

[FairWinds]

7. Well, if you are saying that Trump is not working hard on the trade issue . .

Where have you been?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/politics/donald-trump-trade-speech.html?_r=0

Of course he's lying about trade - but unlike the Dems, he gets the importance of the issue.

Cannot believe HRC is back-tracking on trade - in the WRONG direction.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/27/clintons-first-major-betrayal-dnc-surrogates-defeat-anti-tpp-measure

Makes me want to send Bernie another check.

[pampango]

5. Right wing demagogues are dangerous. Glad labor is taking him seriously. n/t

[FairWinds]

8. If labor were taking Trump seriously . .

they would be SCREAMING about the Dem platform committee

and it's TPP vote.

[Cryptoad]

9. OP had nothing to do with TTP

but it seems u want to inject over and over, ur off topic-- again ,,,,go start ur own op on TTP

[pampango]

10. We don't have to be Trump to beat Trump.

I prefer Obama's intelligence and leadership to Trump's bombastic demagoging.

Demagogues are often dangerous, effective campaigners. Trump may demagogue his way to the presidency. If we try to out-demagogue a demagogue, we will lose and deservedly so.

As with Brexit in the UK, if voters want simple conservative populism - America (or Britain) First - Trump is the perfect candidate.