David Axelrod: Trump ‘Created the Crisis and Tried to Take Credit for the Rally at the End of the Day’

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AXELROD: "He believes, and I‘ve heard Alyssa Farah Griffin, who worked for him, talk about this. He believes that if you say it, that people will believe it. You know, Donald Trump is not a great businessman, but he is a brilliant, historically talented brander and marketer. And he markets the truth as he wants it to be seen. But sometimes the facts don‘t cooperate. I thought it was incredible, at the end of the day, that he was boasting and the White House was boasting about the rally in the stock market. It reminded me of that story Lincoln used to tell about the guy who — the kid who murdered his parents and then went to court and pleaded for mercy because he was an orphan. I mean, he created the crisis and then tried to take credit for the rally at the end of the day. But this is what he believes that you can sell. When — when they talked about alternative facts, he believes that you can sell your own narrative. Well, the world isn‘t like that. And we could pay a terrible price for it."