‘Really?’: CNN Host Hits Back At House Republican’s Eyebrow-Raising Trump Claim | EUROtoday

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) steered away from criticizing Donald Trump on Friday when confronted on CNN concerning the inventory market free fall occurring on the president’s watch.

“Sir, is this Donald Trump’s economy now?” CNN’s Kasie Hunt bluntly requested.

“Well, I don’t know that I’d call it that,” Burchett replied.

Hunt swiftly raised her eyebrows after listening to the declare, “Really?”

Burchett proceeded to ask whether or not CNN would use the time period “Donald Trump’s economy” when the now-tumbling inventory market “turns around,” parroting the president’s prediction that the economic system will finally “boom” after a “minor disturbance” brought on by his sweeping tariffs.

He added that he didn’t recall the community internet hosting panels “railing” on President Joe Biden’s economic system, a declare that Hunt shut down by noting that former Biden White House communications director Kate Bedingfield was sitting subsequent to her off digicam.

“She was in a number of tough situations where we talked plenty about those issues,” mentioned Hunt of Bedingfield, a CNN analyst.

After seconds of crosstalk, Hunt famous that Trump has not too long ago tied his predecessor to the state of the economic system, claiming that he inherited an “economic catastrophe” and “inflation nightmare” from Biden.

At the tip of Biden’s presidency, consultants mentioned the economic system — broadly talking — was in a superb place.

“Voters are willing to give new presidents the benefit of the doubt in those circumstances. Do you really not see yesterday as a line in the sand before he could argue it was Biden’s and now he has to — whatever happens good or bad — own that?” she requested of Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs announcement.

Burchett, in response, declared that “everybody knew” the economic system was going to “take a hit.”

“But economists will tell you can stack up a group that’ll say no and the other ones will say yes, that the market is not really a good indicator,” he claimed.

Trump himself typically used a booming inventory market to tout his dealing with of the economic system in his first time period however he’s been notably quiet in his present administration, The New York Times famous early final month.

“We’ve had the best stock market which is — whether you like stock market or not, it’s a leading indicator, the all-time leading indicator,” he instructed reporters outdoors Air Force One in 2020.