TRUMP BASHES NAFTA IN MIDST OF TALKS

Just a week into talks to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Donald Trump is threatening to abandon the 23-year-old pact with Canada and Mexico.

At a high-profile campaign-style rally in Phoenix on Tuesday night, Trump predicted that the United States would “end up probably terminating” NAFTA “at some point,” though he said he hadn’t made a final decision.

“Personally,” Trump said, “I don’t think we can make a deal because we have been so badly taken advantage of.”

The president had made the same threat in April but then reversed himself after a pushback from American businesses.

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