Armageddon by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann

calling it “exciting,” “innovative,” “ambitious,” “groundbreaking,” “cutting-edge,” “high-quality,” and “high-standard.” 52 Her support for TPP was fanned by her top advisors who held top positions with banks such as Morgan Stanley and other institutions deeply interested in selling the deal for their own profit.
    Morgan Stanley spent $4 million in 2013 and $4.8 million in 2014 lobbying for TPP. Morgan’s former employees seeded the top ranks of Hillary’s State Department staff. Thomas Nides, Morgan’s chief operating and administrative officer, joined Hillary’s State Department as deputy secretary of state for management, a post from which he could advocate TPP at key junctures. When he left State, he was rewarded for his service by returning to Morgan as the bank’s vice president. 53
    Open Secrets reported that “Morgan Stanley’s role in the Clinton orbit” goes beyond Nides, noting that “two prominent alumni offormer President Bill Clinton’s administration . . . serve on Morgan Stanley’s board of directors: Erskine Bowles (its lead director) and Laura Tyson.” Bowles served as Bill’s Chief of Staff and Tyson was the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisors. 54
    Doubtless, Hillary expected to coast into the presidential race touting TPP as a major achievement of her tenure at the State Department. But enter Bernie Sanders, an inveterate opponent of the deal. Facing a challenge from the Left, she flipped and flopped and condemned TPP. Suddenly, it was not just short of the gold standard. It also fell short of her standards. Now, she told PBS, “I’m worried about currency manipulation not being part of the agreement . . . We’ve lost American jobs to the manipulations that countries, particularly in Asia, have engaged in.” 55 (This from a former secretary of state who uttered not a peep when President Obama refused—several times—to certify China as a currency manipulator and invoke sanctions for doing so.) And, Hillary complained, drug companies may have gotten too much in TPP: “Pharmaceutical companies may have gotten more benefits and patients and consumers got fewer,” she commented. 56
    But if businesses got too much, Hillary got a piece of it in her campaign contributions. The Hill reported that “Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has received more campaign cash from drug companies than any candidate in either party, even as she proudly declares the industry is one of her biggest enemies. Clinton accepted $164,315 in the first six months of the campaign from drug companies, far more than the rest of the 2016 field . . .” 57
    What would she do as president with TPP? Oh, that’s easy. She’ll make a few minor changes and declare it fixed. It will be the gold standard again.
Second Amendment
    Her positions on guns have oscillated back and forth with incredible speed and frequency. When she ran for the Senate from antigunNew York State, she backed a national registry for guns. * But when she ran for president and was seeking votes in rural Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan—gun country—she was so pro-gun that Obama quipped that she seemed to want to be “Annie Oakley.” 58 When Obama was quoted as saying that rural Pennsylvanians “cling to guns or religion,” she countered with a strong defense of guns. Suddenly, she was Hillary the Hunter and opposed a national registry for firearms.
    She even brought her father into it. “You know,” she said, “my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught me how to shoot when I was a little girl. Some people now continue to teach their children and their grandchildren. It’s part of culture. It’s part of a way of life. People enjoy hunting and shooting because it’s an important part of who they are, not because they are bitter.” Hillary said that blanket federal rules weren’t the answer.