TRUMP: You called it the gold standard of trade deals. You said it’s the finest deal you’ve ever seen. CLINTON: Well, Donald, I know you live in your own reality, but that is not the facts. But the fact is she never used the word “hoped.” Instead, she was more declarative, using the phrase “gold standard” when she was Secretary of State. “This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field,” she said in Australia in 2012.

Source: Washington Post September 27, 2016 02:03 UTC