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Trump taking credit for meaningless statistical fluke caused by Obama
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/27/1638235/-Trump-whines-media-isn-t-covering-meaningless-statistic-he-can-t-possibly-be-responsible-forLink to tweet
“Anything that has happened to the debt has been on autopilot since Obama left," said Laurence Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University. “If anything, he is taking credit for something Obama did."
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It’s also true the debt fluctuates by billions of dollars each day, and the current spending and tax revenue levels that drive those short-term variances were set by the last administration.