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He claimed responsibility...
He should be held responsible,
HipChick
(25,485 posts)ffr
(22,674 posts)It's as though he's in a bunker and out of touch.
Yonnie3
(17,500 posts)Edit to add. Should be a slam dunk suit since he is claiming responsibility.
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In its corrected report, ABC News said it was after Trump became the president-elect that he told Flynn to contact Russian officials. The original story which was part of a broader report on Flynn's guilty plea in the ongoing Russia investigation, and his promise to testify against Trump caused the stock market to tumble last Friday.
"He drove the stock market down 350 points in minutes," Trump said at the Friday night rally. "When you think of it, you know what he cost people? And I said to everybody 'get yourself a lawyer and sue ABC News.'"
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http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rips-abc-news-reporter-brian-ross-suggests-a-lawsuit-2017-12
and a bunch of hard right sources including breitbart
Squinch
(51,026 posts)I believe they truly don't understand the true cause: the world that voted for the republican president, which is where many investors live, has finally begun to realize that they put a person with the intelligence of a doorstop in the white house.
They're insisting there is no "worsening in the fundamentals" so hard, that I think they realize in their little pea brains that there is a big worsening in the most fundamental of the fundamentals.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Just ask Hannity.
Maybe it is Hillary's fault as well.
Squinch
(51,026 posts)Gothmog
(145,666 posts)lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)That's how the Trumplets put it recently. The long term,
of course is when everyone is broke and out of work.
standingtall
(2,787 posts)for the mid-terms with the tax cuts are in place and people feel it narrative the stock market begins to taking a nose dive. So we are officially in correction territory? How many more days like this will it take to declare that we are past correction territory?