Posted on 10/15/2017 6:30:25 PM PDT by familyop
LONDON — Former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton cautioned Britain on Sunday over its push to secure a trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump after it leaves the European Union.
Clinton, the Democratic Party candidate who lost out to Trump in last November's election, also said Britain would face serious disruption if it left the EU without a negotiated deal with Brussels.
The British government has talked up the prospect of bilateral trade deals with the United States and others as one of the major benefits of leaving the EU following last year's surprise referendum vote to leave.
Asked about the prospects of a British-U.S. deal, Clinton told the BBC: "You're making a trade deal with somebody who says he doesn't believe in trade, so I'm not quite sure how that's going to play out over the next few years."
British Prime Minister Theresa May visited Trump in January to talk trade. The countries share $200 billion of trade each year.
But May has since intervened in a dispute between U.S. aerospace firm Boeing and Canadian planemaker Bombardier, lobbying in the interests of Bombardier to try to protect jobs at its factory in Northern Ireland.
Clinton also said Britain would be at a "very big disadvantage" if divorce negotiations with the EU failed, and went on to compare the factors behind the Brexit vote to her own election loss.
"Looking at the Brexit vote now it was a precursor to some extent to what happened to us in the United States... The amount of fabricated, false information that your voters were given by the 'Leave' campaign," she said.
She said her own presidential campaign was subject to similar treatment, citing the spread of false stories by online news outlets, and warned that Britain and other countries must be alert to the risks of such new media.
"The big lie is a very potent tool," she said.
Put a sock in it Hillary and get the hell out of here...YOU LOST!
I truly believe she is having a mental meltdown and believes she is potus. Look for her to start issuing orders to counter everything Trump does. She wants a shadow gov to take over and she is potus.
It’s so easy to want to tell her to STFU - but it’s in America’s best interest to let this nut job keep yappin’!
Keep digging, Hillary! Here’s a fresh shovel!
LOL...every time she opens her mouth tens of millions of Americans...including some democrats...say a silent prayer of thanksgiving that she is not President.
I don't think so, but wish she were. The party wants her to go away. Even Slick Willy tried to talk her out of the book and book tour. As a result she cut off all communication with him. Lucky man.
...”She’s treasonous”....
That’s how I see Hillary.....one thing to slam a president you don’t like...quite another to warn ‘another country’ against Is policy he gets to set.
...”She’s treasonous”....
That’s how I see Hillary.....one thing to slam a president you don’t like...quite another to warn ‘another country’ against Is policy he gets to set.
She’s not demented...she knows exactly what she’s doing...and this is indeed treasonous behavior.
Obama’s been doing his tour since he left office, only he calls it vacation...she's carrying the same now only she calls it promoting her book.
The two are undermining a sitting President on foreign soil and should be convicted for doing so.
You have to admit, she clearly explains what she's doing.
Hillary is desperately trying to stay relevant ... and this is best she’s got? Sad.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
Logan act violation?
Wow I can think of a former Presidential candidate doing this to a newly elected President?
Has this happened ever before?
What a loon!
She is a private citizen. She really needs to STFU.
The ex co-president (with the sexual predator Slick Willie) needs to shut her fat mouth. She ain’t it no more. She is a loser in life, and a loser in the last election. So, just shut the hell up.
Back in the day the crazy people got tossed into the county home.
Now they go into politics instead.
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