President Trump: Dems Don’t Want Economy to Recover; Biden Attacks Trump, Blames Him For Coronavirus ‘Economic Disaster’
By Politico. President Donald Trump said Friday some Democratic leaders hope the American economy will not bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic because they believe a national financial recovery would boost his electoral prospects.
“The people want to come back. You see what’s going on at statehouses all over the country. They want to come back,” Trump said at a White House meeting with congressional Republicans, referring to recent demonstrations in several state capitals against stay-at-home orders.
“I think some people don’t want it really to come back, for political reasons, which is sick,” Trump continued, offering no evidence to support his claim. “But the people — the real people, the people that want this country to be great, and great again — we can say they want to get back.” . . .
“I will tell you, you look at some cases, some people think they’re doing it for politics. Here we go again. But they think they’re doing it because it’ll hurt me, the longer it takes to — hurt me in the election, the longer it takes to open up,” Trump told “Fox & Friends.” (Read more from “President Trump: Dems Don’t Want Economy to Recover” HERE)
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Biden Argues Trump’s Policies Fueled Coronavirus ‘Economic Disaster’
By Fox News. Joe Biden launched a blistering attack at President Trump on Friday, hours after the nation’s jobless rate skyrocketed to levels not seen since the Great Depression nearly a century ago.
And the former vice president charged that the sharp economic downturn — caused by the shuttering of much of the nation’s economy in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic — was deepened “because Donald Trump has spent three years tilting the playing field to the wealthy, and not the middle class.” . . .
LIVE BIDEN ADDRESS: Former VP Joe Biden is laying out his general election economic argument in an exclusive address on NowThis. His remarks come on the heels of new unemployment data showing record high American job losses in April. https://t.co/eQHKh1k1p6
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He emphasized that the president’s economic agenda has “three unmistakable failings.” Biden said Trump’s main measure of economic progress is the state of the stock market and that the president delayed action on the virus to “protect the Dow Jones average.” He also claimed that that Trump’s strategy is focused on helping wealthy corporations and that the president hasn’t lived up to his promise to fight for the forgotten middle class.
“Donald Trump utterly failed to prepare for this pandemic and delayed in taking the necessary steps to safeguard our nation against the near-worst-case-economic scenario we are now living. COVID-19 caused a massive economic challenge. But this crisis hit us harder, and will last longer, because Donald Trump spent the last three years undermining the core pillars of our economic strength,” Biden argued. (Read more from “Biden Argues Trump’s Policies Fueled Coronavirus ‘Economic Disaster’” HERE)
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