Trump official blames Biden for turmoil, bashed for "Lying in such a cartoonishly obvious way"

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'Blatantly lying': Economists whack Trump official's attempt to blame Biden for turmoil


https://www.rawstory.com/scott-bessnet-interview-2671727590/

Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday:

During an appearance on Maria Bartiromo's show on Fox Business, Bartiromo grilled Bessent about the CEO of a major company who told her recently that they believed the United States had already entered an economic recession

Instead of directly addressing the question, Bessent tried to shift blame away to the former president.

"What the CEO may have alluded to is that the manufacturing sector under the previous administration was in a recession," he said.

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Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan, took a far less measured approach to objecting to Bessent's statement and simply said, "Transparently lying won't calm markets, businesses, or consumers."

Non-economists also piled on Bessent's attempts to blame Biden

"Lying in such a cartoonishly obvious way comes across as extremely stupid hard to believe he's this bad at public advocacy for the administration he serves," observed journalist John Harwood.

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1. Lying in cartoonishly obvious ways is how people keep their jobs in the Trump administration.