Trump's promoters have no good answer for his economic falsehoods
The White House held its first news briefing in nearly three weeks Monday — apparently for the purpose of arguing that former president Barack Obama shouldn't get credit for the current economy, and President Trump should.
But even as Kevin Hassett, chairman of Trump's Council of Economic Advisers, was pitching that fact-based case, Trump had already undermined it with falsehoods. Trump has rather inexplicably taken a very good economy and insisted upon embellishing and outright fabricating things about it. On Monday, he left his spokesmen to twist in the wind.
In the span of an hour, both Hassett and Trump ally Matt Schlapp were confronted with Trump's false Twitter claims that the GDP was higher than the unemployment rate for the first time in 100 years and that Obama had said Trump “would need a magic wand to get to 4% GDP.”
The former is far from true (it's actually been just 12 years), and the latter quote appears to have been invented (Obama did reference a “magic wand,” but it was about manufacturing jobs, not GDP).
Trump ally Matt Schlapp:
“The specific fact doesn't matter as long as it's pointing in the right direction. If the economy is good, it doesn't matter if you exaggerate by 88 years.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/10/trumps-promoters-have-no-good-answer-his-economic-falsehoods/?utm_term=.66ef263ea110
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