CNN’s Rampell: ‘The Economy Today Is Not Substantially Different from the Economy Before Trump Took Office’

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STELTER: "Is it Trump fans are exaggerating the growth?"
RAMPELL: "Yes."
STELTER: "All I hear is the economy."
RAMPELL: "The economy today is not substantially different from the economy before Trump took office. It’s not like you can point to a point in the decline of unemployment where you can see that Trump took office and the red sea parted and people gained job. These are basically the same trends we saw before despite the fact that there’s been fiscal stimulus Trump has pumped into the economy through higher spending. We’re not seeing payoff. Because the economy has not crashed, for some reason Trump gets to claim credit for the"