"Trump touched on several topics during his 18-minute address to the nation on Wednesday night, but did focus on cost of living and the economy, blaming former President Joe Biden for inflation while touting lower prices for groceries and gas across the nation. Morning Joe co-host Jonathan Lemire pressed Hassett on Trump's exaggerated claims Thursday, only for the advisor to claim that not only were the president's claims true, but that the facts were documented in a slide deck provided to each network."
"He then taunted: But I wonder, like, did you guys show the slides? Do you know? Scarborough cut in to say that he did not know before Hassett cut in adding: Maybe show them to Rattner and see what he thinks. The host then laid down a dare: I was just going to suggest, Kevin, I think we should have Rattner's charts and then Kevin's charts, and you can walk us through them."
"Some networks while he was speaking they showed the slides and in some networks they didn't. And I just thought that was kind of unusual. I was expecting when I was flipping around to just see the slides everywhere, Hassett said. He continued: Gosh, we spent so much time on them. But, you know, I think that the president had documentation for the facts that he was saying, they were in the slides."
President Donald Trump delivered an 18-minute address that emphasized cost of living and economic claims, blaming Joe Biden for inflation while touting lower grocery and gas prices. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett asserted that the president's factual claims were documented in a slide deck provided to networks and criticized major networks for not showing the slides side-by-side. CNN reported that only Fox News showed some slides during the speech. Morning Joe hosts pressed Hassett on alleged exaggerations, and Joe Scarborough dared Hassett to present his charts against MS NOW numbers analyst Steve Rattner in an on-air comparison.
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