Those sneaky sleeper cells of supporters of former President Donald Trump appear to have infiltrated the ranks of MSNBC, according to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
Pelosi sat down for an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur and brought up one Democrats’ favorite — yet one of their least truthful — talking points about Trump: his job record compared to President Joe Biden’s.
“Joe Biden is doing that. Created nine million jobs in his term in office. Donald Trump has the worst record of job loss of a president. So, we just have to make sure people know,” the California Democrat said.
However, Tur interjected, “That was a global pandemic.”
Well, Pelosi didn’t it one bit that her narrative was being countered with facts and lost it, firing back, “He had the worst record of any president!”
“We’ve had other concerns in our country. If you want to be an apologist for Donald Trump, that may be your role, but it ain’t mine,” she added.
Tur countered, “I don’t think anybody can accuse me of that.”
Watch the video below:
YIKES: Crazy Nancy Pelosi SNAPS at Katy Tur for reminding her that Biden's job "gains" are really jobs recovered from the pandemic pic.twitter.com/MCUBaOTCap
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If you just look at a graph of job growth under various presidents going back to the 1980s, you see a generally upward trend with some dips such as the recession that started at the end of President George W. Bush’s presidency.
And then you look at the graph for Trump and see a steady increase up until 2020 when it takes takes a sharp dive.
Now, if you have been living under a rock or just woke up from a coma approximately one minute ago and are reading this, you make think that drop off represents one of the worst financial crises our country has faced, and that whoever was president at the time must have really implemented some horrible economic policies or had no clue how to respond to the economic crisis.
You might even see the comparison that Democrats try to make between Trump and Herbert Hoover, who was president at the start of the Great Depression.
But they conveniently, as Pelosi did, leave out the fact that that sharp drop off represents the fall out of the government forcing people to stay at home for weeks and shutting down businesses to try to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.
They also leave out that it was Republicans and Trump were pushing to roll back Covid restrictions to a certain extent once we got a better picture of who was vulnerable so that those who wanted to could try to get back to normal and get to work and their businesses back, but Democrats and liberals in the media continually predicted mass death to try to keep that from happening.
Credit to Tur for pointing out that the job losses occurred in the vacuum of a pandemic and not some fundamental issue with the economy or Trump’s management of it up till then.
It doesn’t make her an “apologist” for the former president, but rather one for facts and preserving the accurate history of what happened — at least in this case.
