Margaret Hoover grills Eric Swalwell for refusing to give Trump credit on anything: “You just seem completely unwilling to say anything positive about this economy in relation to the leadership over the last 2 years. Are you allergic to saying anything positive about Trump?” pic.twitter.com/HsyJ1AJSDa
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 27, 2019
There are dumb people in Congress. But if there were a contest, this guy would have to be right up there.
Via Daily Wire:
Margaret Hoover, the host of PBS’s “Firing Line With Margaret Hoover,” grilled Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) on Friday after he refused to acknowledge anything positive about President Donald Trump, asking him, “Are you allergic to saying anything positive about Trump?”
Hoover, who pressed Swalwell hard over his obsession with Russia, asked Swalwell what he thought of the state of the U.S. economy.
“Insecure. It’s not working,” Swalwell answered. “So, right now, about 78% of Americans, according to CareerBuilder, are living paycheck-to-paycheck.”
“It is hard to argue with 3.9% unemployment, highest wage growth in this last year, in 2018, than any of the past years in the past decade,” Hoover responded. “I mean, many of the fundamentals and the confidence of the economy are far better since Trump took office than they were under the previous eight years of President Obama’s presidency.”
“And I wonder if it’s just too difficult for Democrats to give the president a win,” Hoover continued.
“No, I think if you look at this like a building, if you work on the top floor of the building, you’re doing really well, and those fundamentals matter,” Swalwell replied. “The stock market matters ’cause you’re invested in it. If you’re working on a lot of the floors below, where —”
“Yeah, but wages are up,” Hoover shot back.