Donald Trump’s campaign condemned Hillary Clinton for her “cynical TPP flip-flop” Sunday after the latest WikiLeaks dump of emails hacked from Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta revealed some of the lengths the Democratic nominee went to in order to deceive the public on her position.

In an email from Nikki Budzinski, the labor outreach director of Hillary for America, sent on Oct. 6, 2015 to Podesta and campaign manager Robby Mook, Budzinski praised Clinton for her decision to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

“The revelation in today’s batch of WikiLeaks emails that Hillary Clinton had already decided to oppose TPP before final language was released shows the pure hypocrisy of the Clinton machine.”

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“First, I’m very glad HRC [Hillary Clinton] has gotten to the oppose position, this will be very helpful with mobilization on the ground and support within labor during and after this primary,” Budzinski wrote. “The timing question for the roll out came up and I … wanted you to know I voiced my support for waiting for disclosure of the full document before HRC states her opposition on the issue.”

Budzinski proceeded to outline why she believed Clinton should wait to voice her opposition to the TPP.

“Waiting until she can say she’s reviewed the language in the agreement is consistent with where her position has been and why she’s waited this long to weigh in,” Budzinski wrote. “We don’t have the language yet or much documentation to fall back that she will be able to credibly say she reviewed and then therefore weighed in on. If she weighs in now, without viewing the document, some in labor might wonder why she didn’t just say she opposed earlier? It might make her position appear more political then [sic] what they’ll accuse her of anyways.”

Clinton ultimately followed that course of action and continued to publicly avoid commenting on TPP until the language of the agreement was made publicly available.

Four months after Budzinski’s emails showed Clinton had decided to oppose TPP, Clinton misled the public on how that decision was informed.

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“I said that I was holding out the hope that [TPP] would be the kind of trade agreement that I was looking for,” Clinton said during a primary debate with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Feb. 4, 2016, “I waited until it had actually been negotiated because I did want to give the benefit of the doubt to the [Obama] administration. Once I saw what the outcome was, I opposed it.”

The Trump campaign hammered Clinton for deceiving the public on how she ultimately came to oppose the 12-nation trade pact.

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“The revelation in today’s batch of WikiLeaks emails that Hillary Clinton had already decided to oppose TPP before final language was released shows the pure hypocrisy of the Clinton machine,” Jason Miller, the Trump campaign’s senior communications adviser, said in a statement Sunday. “Throughout this election, Clinton has attempted to walk back her support for TPP [a trade agreement she called the ‘gold standard’] by saying she had yet to see the final version of the deal. Now we know Clinton’s TPP flip-flop was just another cynical political ploy by the most cynical politician in American history.”