Trump blasts Clinton’s ‘politics of fear, futility and incompetence’

Donald Trump on Tuesday tore into Hillary Clinton in a trade policy speech, calling on voters to reject Clinton’s “politics of fear, futility and incompetence.”

{mosads}The presumptive GOP presidential nominee called for tariffs on imported goods in order to protect American manufacturing and blasted international trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

“Hillary Clinton, and her campaign of fear, will try to spread the lie that these actions will start a trade war. She has it completely backwards,” he said, according to a transcript obtained by Politico.

“Hillary Clinton unleashed a trade war against the American worker when she supported one terrible trade deal after another — from NAFTA to China to South Korea,” Trump continued.

He said America has lost nearly one-third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997, as the nation’s population went up by 50 million.

“At the center of this catastrophe are two trade deals pushed by Bill and Hillary Clinton,” he said, referring to NAFTA and “China’s entry into the World Trade Organization.”

Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee reversed her previous support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in order to imitate Trump, he said.

“Hillary Clinton was totally for the TPP just a short while ago, but when she saw my stance, which is totally against, she was shamed into saying she would be against it, too — but have no doubt, she will immediately approve it if it is put before her, guaranteed,” Trump said.

He challenged the media to ask Clinton “if she is willing to withdraw from the TPP her first day in office and unconditionally rule out its passage in any form.”