Trump: Biden Took Donations from American Workers While Offshoring Their Jobs to China
During the fourth evening of the Republican National Convention (RNC), President Trump slammed Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden for taking the donations of American workers while helping to offshore their jobs to China and abroad.
“Joe Biden is not the savior of America’s soul — he is the destroyer of America’s jobs, and if given the chance, he will be the destroyer of American greatness,” Trump said.
“For 47 years, Joe Biden took the donations of blue-collar workers, gave them hugs and even kisses, and told them he felt their pain — and then he flew back to Washington and voted to ship their jobs to China and many other distant lands,” Trump continued:
Joe Biden spent his entire career outsourcing the dreams of American workers, offshoring their jobs, opening their borders, and sending their sons and daughters to fight in endless foreign wars. Four years ago, I ran for president because I could not watch this betrayal of our country any longer. I could not sit by as career politicians let other countries take advantage of us on trade, borders, foreign policy, and national defense. [Emphasis added]
Biden, while in the Senate, supported China entering the World Trade Organization (WTO), voted for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and supported normalizing United States’ trade relations with China.
As a result, the WTO-NAFTA period before Trump’s election — where he put tariffs on Chinese products and replaced NAFTA — resulted in the loss of nearly five million American manufacturing jobs and at least 55,000 U.S. manufacturing plants across the nation.
Trump also touted his ending of Biden and President Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
“Days after taking office, we shocked the Washington establishment and withdrew from the last administration’s job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership,” Trump said.
During the later years of the Obama administration, Biden as vice president toured the nation promoting TPP. Research has shown that TPP, if not killed by Trump, would have provided incentives for big businesses to offshore U.S. jobs.
“Fast-tracking TPP would make it easier for corporations to offshore U.S. jobs and push down our wages by forcing Americans to compete with workers in Vietnam who make less than 60 cents an hour and in Malaysia, where forced labor is widely used,” an analysis by Public Citizen noted.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Fact Check: Biden Has
Consistently Fought to Send U.S. Jobs Overseas
19 Aug 20208
2:44
CLAIM: Former United States Secretary of Labor
Hilda Solis claimed that Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden is the
“fighter” that American workers need.
VERDICT:
FALSE. Biden has sided with big business and Wall Street interests against
American workers on issues such as trade.
“American
workers need a fighter now more than ever and Joe Biden is that person because
he has done it before and I’ve seen it firsthand,” Solis said on the third
night of the Democrat National Convention (DNC).
Biden
has a long voting record on trade, one of the most consequential issues for
working and middle class Americans looking for protections in the labor market.
In the 1990s, Biden voted in support of the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which led to the elimination of five million American
manufacturing jobs and helped eliminate at least 50,000 manufacturing plants in
the United States.
Biden, in 1993, repeatedly claimed NAFTA would
create more U.S. jobs at Chrysler’s Newark, Delaware plant. In 2007, the
Chrysler plant closed due to unfair
competition in the Mexican market caused by NAFTA.
Then, in 2000, Biden voted to normalize trade
relations with China. Of the five million American manufacturing jobs lost
since the late 1990s, about 3.4 million were lost directly due to U.S. free
trade with China.
During
the later years of the Obama administration, Biden as vice president toured the
nation promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Research has shown that
TPP, if not killed by President Trump, would have provided incentives for big
businesses to offshore U.S. jobs.
“Fast-tracking TPP would make it easier for
corporations to offshore U.S. jobs and push down our wages by forcing Americans
to compete with workers in Vietnam who make less than 60 cents an hour and in
Malaysia, where forced labor is widely used,” an analysis by Public Citizen
noted.
“The
TPP’s Investment Chapter provides special benefits to firms that offshore
American jobs and eliminates many of the usual risks that make firms think
twice about moving to low-wage countries, such as TPP member Vietnam,” the
analysis found.
In the current election cycle, Biden has touted
a near
carbon-copy platform
on trade as Obama. The promises made by Obama in 2008 ultimately led to the administration attempting
to enter the U.S. into the TPP.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him
on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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