Proves Pro-TPP Articles Are All From This 1 Person
While GOP front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders are about as different as night and day, they both agree that bad trade deals are killing American jobs.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is one of those deals that Trump and Sanders hate. The TPP doesn’t come up much in an election cycle dominated by international terrorism and personal attacks between the candidates, but it is still discussed.
Breitbart reported that in an alarming discovery, a pro-TPP article that was supposedly written by former San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders uses language that is virtually identical to a piece of literature from a pro-TPP lobbyist group.
The language appears to be from an op-ed titled “San Diego Draft op-ed,” from Southwest Strategies, which is a consulting firm that happens to be funded by Japan, a country that would very much like to see the TPP implemented.
“Notably, the TPP includes Japan, which is significant,” states Sanders’ op-ed.
“Notably, the TPP includes Japan, which is critical,” reads the Southwest Strategies op-ed.
“With more than 95 percent of the world’s consumers outside of our borders, and with more than one in five U.S. jobs dependent on trade, it is essential that the U.S. continue to open new markets for American goods and services, while creating and sustaining jobs for American workers,” reads Sanders’ op-ed, almost word for word with the corresponding Southwest Strategies op-ed.
Pro-TPP op-eds you might have read supposedly by community leaders were actually ghostwritten by foreign lobbyists https://t.co/phMoHUIDrZ
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) April 10, 2016
These op-eds are very deceitful, using dirty tactics to try to convince the American public to support a disastrous trade agreement that will cost American jobs.
“The only difference between the draft and the published op-ed are the verb tenses, such as changing ‘will be’ to ‘was’ and ‘addresses’ to ‘addressed,’” wrote Lee Fang, on TheIntercept.com.
More than 50 health, religious and labor groups urge Congress to reject #TPP trade deal – https://t.co/0K1LR9pcZP but the politicians ignore
— Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) April 12, 2016
Regardless of how you feel about the trade deal, we can all agree that these sorts of deceitful tactics are unacceptable. The American people should be allowed to decide for themselves how they feel about the TPP, not be influenced by shadowy special interest groups.
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