Close this deal you mean. He's closed plenty of deals including making NATO members to pay their fair shares, New NAFTA deal (whatever it's called now), deal with EU to import more US exports, etc...
I don't either to be fair.. I just know that for decades, we were on the losing end of most deals for whatever reasons.. and now we're making smarter decisions.Seriously though - I don't pretend to understand what it takes to close a deal like this, it's the lack of a contingency plan that frustrates me. I'm all for getting better trade deals, but when we have no one else lined up to purchase it, we end up bailing them out for a product we all don't need. Isnt the platform against socialism?