Trump boasts about a great economic record. Too bad it's Obama's.
Opinion by Catherine Rampell
In recent days, President Trump and allies have offered a fulsome defense of a presidential economic record.
Alas, the presidential record theyre describing isnt Trumps. It belongs to his predecessor, Barack Obama. And perhaps also to Obamas second-in-command, Joe Biden.
Team Trump, in promulgating the myth of Trumps economic genius, has recently doubled down on a false narrative: that Trump inherited a recession and magically turned it into a boom. This is almost the exact reverse of events of the past 3½ years. In reality Trump inherited from Obama an expansion one that, in retrospect, turned out to be the longest in U.S. history and converted it into a bust.
Not just any bust; a possible depression, at least for the working class.
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