Maddow Muddies Waters on NAFTA Signing in Attempt to Smear Trump Claim

Curtis Houck | September 29, 2016
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While recapping Monday’s presidential debate and trying to fact-check Donald Trump, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow seemed not to have all her ducks in a row on Tuesday when it came to slamming Trump for supposedly lying about Bill Clinton signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) when she argued it was actually George H.W. Bush. 

Turns out, Maddow’s attempt to run off as many falsehoods from Trump as possible hindered a thorough explanation that while then-President Bush negotiated NAFTA and held a initial signing of the agreement, it was Clinton who made the final changes and ushered its passage through Congress to its signing on December 8, 1993 and implementation on January 1, 1994.

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