Signs of a slowdown in the economy are spelling danger for President Trump’s chances of reelection.
But he is doing everything he can to push back on the harbingers of gloom — and to shift the blame for any adverse developments.
Trump has lashed out several times at Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whom he has accused of not cutting interest rates enough. He has argued that if a Democrat were to beat him next year, the economy would “go down the tubes.” And he has suggested that predictions of an economic downturn are being ginned up by a hostile media.
View the complete August 18 article by Niall Stanage on The Hill website here.