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Networks Go All Out to Paint Trump as Admitting He Can’t Improve Economy

Between Thursday night and Friday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship morning and evening newscasts to promote a disinformation campaign first launched by The Bulwark’s Sam Stein to use President-Elect Trump’s comments about grocery prices to argue he can’t and won’t improve the lives of struggling Americans.

Our friends at Twitchy had a breakdown of Stein’s word games in which he said Trump told Time magazine for its Person of the Year interview what “it’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.”

However, he actually had a lot more to say that, in fact, he would (click “expand”):

But I think that they will. I think that energy is going to bring them down. I think a better supply chain is going to bring them down. You know, the supply chain is still broken. It’s broken. You see it. You go out…

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