Donald Trump has jumped on comments made by rival Hillary Clinton in Australia four years ago to argue during their debate she will approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership if elected US president.
Ms Clinton, while US Secretary of State during President Barack Obama's first term, declared in a speech in Adelaide on her 2012 Australian tour the "TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade".
The TPP is a proposed trade pact between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Vietnam, Singapore and five other nations.
"You called it the gold standard of trade deals," Mr Trump said in an early, heated exchange during their first presidential debate at New York's Hofstra University on Monday.
On the campaign trail Mr Trump and Ms Clinton have both said they will not support the TPP, but Mr Trump said Ms Clinton would change her mind and approve it if she wins the November 8 election.
"Now you want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership," Mr Trump said.
"You were totally in favour of it.
"Then you heard what I was saying how bad it was and said, 'I can't win that debate'."
Ms Clinton fired back she was against it once it was finally negotiated and the terms were laid out.
This happened after she left the Obama administration.
"Donald I know you live in your own reality, but that is not the facts," she said.
"I said I hoped it would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated which I was not responsible for, I concluded it wasn't."
Ms Clinton, while US Secretary of State during President Barack Obama's first term, declared in a speech in Adelaide on her 2012 Australian tour the "TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade".
The TPP is a proposed trade pact between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Vietnam, Singapore and five other nations.
"You called it the gold standard of trade deals," Mr Trump said in an early, heated exchange during their first presidential debate at New York's Hofstra University on Monday.
On the campaign trail Mr Trump and Ms Clinton have both said they will not support the TPP, but Mr Trump said Ms Clinton would change her mind and approve it if she wins the November 8 election.
"Now you want to approve Trans-Pacific Partnership," Mr Trump said.
"You were totally in favour of it.
"Then you heard what I was saying how bad it was and said, 'I can't win that debate'."
Ms Clinton fired back she was against it once it was finally negotiated and the terms were laid out.
This happened after she left the Obama administration.
"Donald I know you live in your own reality, but that is not the facts," she said.
"I said I hoped it would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated which I was not responsible for, I concluded it wasn't."
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