SHE STANDS WHEREVER SHE THINKS SHE HAS TO STAND TO GET ELECTED: Where does Clinton stand on trade? Campaign manager didn’t know.

Back in the early days of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, shortly before her official announcement video (and a couple months before her second official campaign kickoff), her campaign manager wondered where his candidate stood on trade.

In an email illegally obtained and released by Wikileaks, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook was asked if the former secretary of state would be willing to sign onto a letter in support of trade. The letter was presented to Mook by White House aide David Simas, who presented the letter as a bipartisan effort among Republicans and Democrats.

Mook forwarded Simas’ email to other top members of Team Clinton, including Jake Sullivan, Jennifer Palmieri, John Podesta and Kristina Schake. Mook at the time didn’t know where Clinton stood on the issue of trade.

“I can’t recall where we landed exactly on trade,” Mook wrote. “Is she going to say she supports it?”

He followed up by directly addressing the letter: “Regardless of her position, signing a letter feels like poking the bear with labor to me.”

Clinton had voted for multiple trade agreements as a senator, and once called the Trans-Pacific Partnership the “gold standard” in trade agreements

Ultimately, of course, her loyalty is to the crony-corporatist class. But no point making that too obvious over the next couple of weeks.