Sorry Dems, This Is Trump’s Economic Boom, Not Obama’s — Here’s the Proof

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The ongoing economic boom under President Trump has put Democrats in an increasingly tight bind. How do you justify removing Trump from office when the economy is doing so well on his watch?

Here’s how CNN’s Jake Tapper posed the question to presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar.

“Unemployment is the lowest it’s been since I was nine months old. You’re really not going to give President Trump any credit for that in terms of his tax cuts, deregulation or anything he’s done?”

He put basically the same question to fellow hopeful Cory Booker.

Both stuck to their talking points. The credit, they said, belongs to President Obama.

“I think that we have had policies in place starting with President Obama that have aided that recovery,” Klobuchar said.

Trump’s National Economic Council Director, Larry Kudlow, didn’t waste any time responding, telling Fox News later the same day that “What Mr. Booker and some others are saying is simply not true factually.”

Kudlow is right.

While the recession ended in June 2009 — just six months after President Obama took office and long before his stimulus money was spent — Obama presided over the weakest economic recovery in history.