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Barack Obama: “All he [Donald Trump] did was give a tax cut to people who…”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Barack Obama campaigning for Kamala Harris, Philadelphia

Published | Video Starts at 16:57

Financial crisis, Great recession, the auto industry flat on its back. And after those eight years, I then handed over 75 straight months of job growth to Donald Trump. And All he [Donald Trump] did was give a tax cut to people who didn't need it. Drove up the deficit in the process. Now he wants to do it all over again. So, all right, so that's on the economy. People have this weird pre Covid memory, as if somehow he did something. (16:57–17:04)

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Asserts that Donald Trump gave a tax cut to the wealthy, increasing the deficit.

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