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Biden hammers Trump after jobs report, scurries off before he has to answer hard questions

September 2, 2023 | | Print Article

President Joe Biden took a victory lap Friday following a positive jobs report but then scurried off like a coward when confronted with tough questions.

The jobs report released Friday showed that the number of jobs produced in August rose to 187,000 versus the 157,000 recorded in July. Mind you, the jobs report also showed that unemployment rose from 3.5 percent to 3.8 percent.

During a White House news briefing early Friday afternoon, the president specifically used these numbers to attack former President Donald Trump, his number one rival in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

Listen:

“It wasn’t that long ago that America was losing jobs. In fact, my predecessor was one of only two presidents in history who entered his presidency and left with fewer jobs than when he entered,” he began, completely ignoring the effect that Democrat-state lockdowns had on the economy during the COVID pandemic.

“Look at where we are now. Just this morning, we learned that the economy created 190,000 jobs last month. All told, we’ve added 13.5 million jobs since I took office — around 800,000 of them manufacturing jobs. We created more jobs in two years than any president ever created in a single four-year term. We did it in two years,” he added.

The president continued by even using the bad unemployment number to attack Trump.

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“What’s more, when I took office, the unemployment rate was 6.3 percent. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that it would not get below 4 percent until the end of 2025. Now, the unemployment rate has been below four percent for the last 19 months, the longest stretch in over 50 years,” he said.

“We’ve recovered all the jobs lost during the pandemic. And we’ve added four million more new jobs. More than 700,000 people joined the labor force last month, which means the highest share of working-age Americans are in the workforce now than at any time in the past 20 years,” he added.

After the conclusion of his speech, which lasted about 10 minutes, the president was then peppered with tough questions, including some about the economy.

Watch:

“Why are so many Americans living paycheck to paycheck?” one reporter asked.

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“Why did you interact with so many of your son’s foreign business partners?” another asked.

“Will you give your bank records to Congress?” a third asked.

The president ignored every single one of these questions, choosing instead to turn around and walk away from the podium. In response, X/Twitter users decimated him with criticism.

Look:

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Meanwhile, a closer, non-biased survey of the country suggests that most Americans are far worse off under Biden than they were under Trump.

As noted by former CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder in a National Review column published in early July, “Americans, particularly working- and middle-class Americans, are poorer today than they were during the Trump administration.”

And the reason why is because of inflation.

“The annual inflation rate when Biden took office was 1.4 percent. In May, it was 4 percent, or nearly three times the rate he inherited and still double the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target rate. Here’s an actual fact: ‘Under the Biden Harris Administration Inflation Has Risen,'” according to Puzder.

But there’s more. While it’s true inflation has dropped from a 9.1 percent peak in June of 2022, the reason it declined had nothing to do with the president’s policies.

“[T]he inflation rate slowed because the Federal Reserve dramatically increased interest rates, not because of any Biden economic policies. In reality, rather than slowing the current inflationary surge, Bidenomics was a primary cause,” Puzder notes.

“This surge began the very month Democrats passed Biden’s ironically named $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. Prior to the bill’s passage, Larry Summers, the secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton, warned that it could ‘set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation.'”

Vivek Saxena
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