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Outside Views: Reinsch Defends Clinton Pick Of Pro-TPP Salazar For Transition Team

August 23, 2016 at 11:27 AM
Former National Foreign Trade Council President William Reinsch finds opposition to Hillary Clinton's choice of a transition team chief over his trade views “profoundly depressing.” Writing for the Stimson Center's Trade 21 Initiative , where he is a distinguished fellow, Reinsch notes the outcry from progressive Democrats over the appointment of former interior secretary and Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO), an avowed TPP supporter. Salazar, Reinsch says, is not the candidate; Clinton is. “What she thinks about TPP matters,” he writes...


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