Hillary reads the same to me, I must say. I have no idea what she genuinely believes.

But, honestly, why would anyone run for president unless they were an insane egoist or craved power? It's not a job a sane person would volunteer to do.

There are a few rare individuals that do it out of desire to do good, but they seem rarer by the day.

This, he's basically in the game of reactionary politics. Candidate A has X position, so he must take the Y position. Any 'policy' he has in the election process is nothing more than a popularity drive.

I'm assuming you know him well personally, otherwise how could you make such a statement earnestly.

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Trump wants corporations to stay in the US. TPP allows corporations to sue the US for loss of profits in other countries IIRC, so that would mean TPP is indeed against Trump's interests.

He did that because he had to pick a party. He could have just as easily run as a Democrat and used the same tactics with different talking points.

He doesn't really alight with either party.

But he's most certainly anti-free-trade. All of his business and money is in the US (mostly in real estate). It's in his best interest to artificially prop up US industry by shutting down inbound trade.