Stephen Miller Wildly Claims Trump Inherited a ‘Depression’ – Gets Zero Pushback From Fox News Host
White House adviser Stephen Miller told a whopper about the economy on Fox News, and it went completely unchallenged.
Miller joined Friday’s America Reports as stocks cratered for the second day in a row after President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on virtually all imports. At a Rose Garden event on Wednesday, Trump cited bogus data to falsely allege that other countries were slapping massive tariffs on U.S. exports. As Miller spoke, a graphic on the screen indicated the Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped more than 2,100 points on the day. The index closed down 2,231, or 5.5%.
“I’ve only got a few seconds left. People are throwing around the R-word,” host Sandra Smith told Miller. “And they see the Dow down 2,100 points, and people are worried about a recession, worried that we can’t do this without sending this economy into such a deep dive that we can’t come back from it. And I know you guys are all about growth, I know you’re about lowering taxes, rolling back regulations, and seeing that growth. Are you concerned that this is going to put us into a recession?”
Miller responded by saying, on the contrary, things are going great. He even falsely claimed the administration inherited a “depression”:
The exact opposite. We inherited from Joe Biden an economy in total free fall. There has been zero jobs growth for American workers in four years. All the jobs growth had gone to foreign workers. That is a depression, not a recession, that is a depression for the American worker. We had debt and deficits that were rising unsustainably that would lead us into a certain debt and deficit crisis. We had inflation that was in high double digits crushing the American family, making it possible to afford the essentials of life.
We had an economy that was in a state of calamity and catastrophe. President Trump’s policy of re-shoring our supply chains, pushing for total expensing of capital gains, eliminating regulation, eliminating intrusive green news scam environmental rules, pushing for the biggest, broadest tax cut in American history, and reducing taxes on American workers, including ending taxes on tips, ending taxes on overtime, ending taxes on Social Security. This economic program is the single most important program for American wealth, prosperity, and rejuvenation that we’ve ever seen in this country.
Smith responded, “Alright, [I’d] love to continue the conversation. Hope to have you back on, Stephen. Thank you so much.”
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