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“The Five” co-host Greg Gutfeld both explained and defended comments former President Donald Trump made about a crashing economy during a show segment on Thursday while taking a verbal potshot at a left-wing co-host of “The View.”
Left-wing cable hosts and Democrats ripped into Trump earlier this week after he said he believes the U.S. economy is headed for a crash and, if so, that it happens before the election.
“And when there’s a crash, I hope it’s going to be during these next 12 months because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” Trump said during an interview with Lou Dobbs that aired Monday on a website founded by MyPillow Chief Executive Mike Lindell.
Hoover lost re-election in 1932 to Democratic nominee Franklin Delano Roosevelt after the stock market crashed in October 1929, which led to the Great Depression.
Trump added that he believes the economy is fragile and that “the only reason it’s running now is it’s running off the fumes of what we did.”
Leftist hosts and the Biden White House claimed that Trump was hoping for an economic crash.
“When it comes to a commander-in-chief’s duty, they’re not supposed to wish for an economic downturn,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters after the remarks. “They’re supposed to put the American people first; that is what the commander-in-chief is supposed to do. They’re not supposed to hope that American families suffer.”
Gutfeld explained that wasn’t at all what Trump said.
“He — what Trump said is if the economy bottoms out, I hope it’s before I’m in office. That’s what he said,” Gutfeld noted. “But the media ran with it saying, like, he wants the economy to crumble.
“Let me translate this so the media understands it, the people who work in cable news. If The Five ever gets a low rating, and I’m not saying it will, I don’t want to be on that show! Right? I don’t want to be on that show,” Gutfeld explained.
“Now, I didn’t say when The Five gets a low rating because it never does, but if it does, I don’t want to be on the show. Does that sink into Joy Reid’s head now? ‘Oh, I get it. He was saying he didn’t want — he doesn’t want it to happen, but if it does, before he becomes president. Now I understand,'” Gutfeld added.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s ongoing prosecution of Trump is turning him into the ‘Nelson Mandela of America’ — a wrongly persecuted martyr of monumental proportions that could propel him back into the White House, according to a pollster.
“Nearly 7 in 10 voters, or 69%, believe that politics ‘has played’ a role in the four indictments against Trump, according to a new survey shared with Secrets,” the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard wrote last week.
He added: “Voters are angered at what they see as Democratic strong-arm tactics to take out America’s most popular politician with legal and political tactics and believe that President Joe Biden and his Justice Department are behind it.”
Additionally, 58 percent of respondents said they believe that Biden himself has had a role in ensuring Trump was indicted, including a third of Democrats, 54 percent of black voters, and 58 percent of Hispanic respondents. Also, more than half — 56 percent — say they want the DOJ to “stop targeting Donald Trump and interfering with the upcoming presidential election and Biden should let the voters decide who the next president should be,” the survey said.
“Biden is trying to make Donald Trump the Nelson Mandela of America,” said Trump pollster John McLaughlin told Bedard.
He wrote: Mandela spent 27 years in jail because he opposed South Africa’s white leadership and he was elected president when he was eventually freed, turned out of jail as a hero for standing firm in rejecting his opponents.
The poll was done before the left-leaning Colorado Supreme Court booted Trump off the primary ballot pending an appeal, but McLaughlin said the move fits a pattern Republican and some moderate voters see as a Soviet-style effort to silence enemies.
