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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Politics
Chelsie Napiza

MAGAs Push Identical 'Crash the Economy on Purpose' Script While Interest Rates Move in the Opposite Direction

Pro-Trump social media users are pushing strikingly similar claims that Donald Trump is crashing the economy to force interest-rate cuts as economists forecast another Federal Reserve hike (Credit: Voice of America/Wikimedia Commons Public Domain)

Pro-Trump social media users are sharing strikingly similar videos claiming the president is deliberately damaging the economy to push interest rates down, just as economists forecast that the Federal Reserve will raise them again.

A compilation posted by the account Right Wing Cope shows several Trump supporters using similar language to argue that the president is pressuring the Fed into cutting rates and is 'playing chess, not checkers'.

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