Juan Williams Calls Out Jesse Watters for Repeating False Sarah Sanders Claim on Jobs Numbers
Last night Sarah Huckabee Sanders apologized for incorrect comments comparing jobs numbers for African-Americans under Trump and Obama––numbers that Jesse Watters repeated during The Five yesterday.
Sanders said at the briefing, “This president since he took office created 700,000 new jobs for African-Americans. After eight years of president Obama in office, he only created 195,000 jobs for African-Americans. President Trump in his first year and a half has already tripled what president Obama did in eight years.”
Watters brought up what Sanders said and added, “I’ll just let that speak for itself.”
Well, it turns out the claim wasn’t true, as last night the White House Council of Economic Advisors said there was a miscommunication and Sanders apologized:
Correction from today’s briefing: Jobs numbers for Pres Trump and Pres Obama were correct, but the time frame for Pres Obama wasn’t. I’m sorry for the mistake, but no apologies for the 700,000 jobs for African Americans created under President Trump https://t.co/EXGvbliwlS
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) August 15, 2018
So during a segment on The Five about Omarosa today, Juan Williams took a moment to bring this up.
“By the way, Jesse,” he said, “yesterday Sarah Sanders apologized for this business about black unemployment under Trump.”
Watters said, “I think she said she got the years wrong. She was trying to compare it from 8 to 1 1/2 instead of from 1 1/2 to 1 1/2.”
Williams asked, “Why did you repeat it?”
Watters responded, “Because it’s 1 1/2 to 1 1/2.”
He went on to point to the current black unemployment numbers under Trump before asking, “Juan, didn’t do you want a picture with Trump when he was in the building the other day?”
You can watch the whole thing above, via Fox News.
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