Friday, October 02, 2015

Is Rubio weak? Did he lie about reading the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) text before voting to fast-track it?

Matthew Boyle writes at Breitbart,
“No I don’t really believe him,” Trump told Breitbart News when asked if he believes Rubio’s claim he read the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) text before voting to fast-track it.

...Trump’s questioning of whether Rubio read TPP before voting for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) zones in on one of the most critical weaknesses of Rubio’s presidential candidacy. “I can confirm Senator Rubio read the TPP text weeks ago,” Rubio spokeswoman Brooke Sammon told Breitbart News back in late June, after Rubio made a decision to become the 60th and deciding vote for Obama’s trade agenda—which TPA enables and essentially ensures passage through Congress.

But here’s the catch: Despite Sammon’s claim that Rubio read the TPP text before voting to fast-track it with TPA, Rubio and his army of political consultants haven’t been able to provide any evidence that he actually read it. The TPP text was locked away inside a secret room in the basement of the U.S. Capitol—as Breitbart News reported time and again—and the only place members could read it was inside that room. So, to have actually read it before voting for it, since TPP was around 800 pages long according to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Rubio would have had to spend around two full business days inside the room reading the bill.
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