Self-described “MAGA leftist” Batya Ungar-Sargon confidently declared on Thursday night that President Barack Obama’s “first act in office” was passing the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program that bailed out financial institutions during the height of the 2008 financial crisis.
Ungar-Sargon would double down on that claim the following morning, tweeting that “in 2008, President Obama bailed out Wall Street and screwed over Main Street” while defending Donald Trump’s tariffs, insisting that “in 2024” the current president “screwed over Wall Street to bail out Main Street.”