Sen. Chris Murphy: Trump Can Say We’ve Already Won the War, ‘But Americans Are Getting Devastated’ By Rising Oil Prices

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MURPHY: "Well, I mean, listen, I think Trump is very confident, and he has evidence to back this up, that he can will an issue away, that he can either declare victory and people will just be convinced we were victorious, or he can just do something else really outrageous and the whole country will shift its attention. The problem here is that there is a scoreboard, right, that you stare at every single day. It’s the price of gasoline. He can move on to another issue. He can do something more outrageous. He can try to say that we’ve already won the war, but Americans are getting devastated by this. Remember, about one third of American families don’t have more than $400 in the bank, right? One third of American families are really living, legitimately, paycheck to paycheck. And so a couple months of gas prices that are, in some places in this country, $5 or $6 a gallon, fundamentally changes your life if you are living paycheck to paycheck, and they just aren’t going to be convinced by Trump’s declarations that the war is over, they aren’t going to really care that he wants a ballroom built. This is a crisis that is going to get worse and worse and worse. And I just don’t think his normal tactics of distraction and obfuscation are going to work here."