Obama takes credit for booming economy. Trump fires back: 'It wasn't him'

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Obama takes credit for booming economy
Trump fires back: 'It wasn't him'
Published: 16 hours ago

 

On the campaign trail for Democrats, former President Obama seized on Republican celebration of the announcement Friday of 261,000 jobs added in August, contending the economic turnaround began under his administration.

President Trump, campaigning himself in North Dakota for a challenger to Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, mocked Obama’s claim.
 

“I think he was trying to take credit for this incredible thing happening to our country,” he said. “I have to say to President Obama, it wasn’t him, and if the Democrats got in with their agenda … instead of having 4.2 (percent GDP growth) up, you have 4.2 down, you’d be in negative numbers.”

Trump said Obama oversaw the “weakest recovery in the history of our country” while America is experiencing now “not a recovery, but a rocket ship.”

Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2018/09/obama-takes-credit-for-booming-economy/#hbZ33FFeTQz7mSWJ.99