At long last, 11-member Pacific trade deal takes effect

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85. The US and 11 other nations formally signed the deal on Feb 4, 2016.

That initiated a 2-year ratification period that was still in progress when Barack left office. Trump ended our participation and killed the original deal, which took five years to negotiate, thus satisfying the demands of his many fans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-11-nations-formally-sign-largest-regional-trade-deal-in-history/2016/02/03/2db4ab26-caa4-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.html?utm_term=.17d0a3674249

Hillary had no formal role in the ratification process. She expressed reservations about the lack of currency manipulation controls, which could have been added in a side agreement. It never came to her desk to sign. She did not spend years campaigning against the TPP. She did not fund raise off her opposition to it. She did not hold rallies to vociferously object to giving Barack Obama fast-track authority, which Congress voted to give him anyway. She did not demagogue against free trade and she did not agree with Trump that "“We are killing ourselves with trade pacts that are no good for us and no good for our workers.”

Trump statement here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/17/this-is-what-trump-and-sanders-get-wrong-about-free-trade/?utm_term=.d7434f8d310e