OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT-ELECT:

Labor Outreach Director Nikki Budzinski told senior campaign advisers on November 3, 2015 that labor leaders were complaining to her about Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D., Texas). The congresswoman, an early Clinton supporter, privately told supporters that Clinton had no intention of opposing the TPP free trade deal once she was president, according to a memo circulated by Budzinski after a meeting with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

Johnson told attendees at a meeting in her district that Clinton's newly minted opposition to the trade deal negotiated by the Obama administration was a form of political opportunism to win over skeptical union members and get "labor off her back" during her close primary race against socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.).

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