This is the rub for me.

Whether it's about Trump university, paying taxes or Carrier Corp moving jobs to Mexico, does it all boil down to a smart businessman making a smart business decision?

"They were workers from Carrier Corp., a United Technologies company, whose factory here announced one bleak day back in February that by 2017 it would outsource 1,400 jobs to a manufacturing plant in Monterrey, Mexico, leaving only 200 non-union research and development jobs behind. The video went viral, racking up more than 3.7 million views on YouTube—a readymade Make America Great Again speech anecdote for Trump. As the billionaire arena storms Indiana, Trump routinely calls the Carrier workers out in rallies, and has talked up their plight since February."

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If the candidate thinks the audience wants to hear smart they defend smart. But if the audience wants to hear unfair they defend unfair. You can't have it both ways.