Over the summer, CNN’s Jake Tapper found and documented 45 instances of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praising and supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade deal that will soon come up for a vote in Congress. Many such instances are on video.

And so on Wednesday, when Clinton abruptly decided to come out against the same deal that she once said was the “gold standard” for free trade deals, it seemed pretty clear that America’s most calculating politician and her cynical campaign team were being, well, calculating and cynical.