The White House took aim at former President Donald Trump after the Republican presidential candidate front-runner said he hoped the economy would crash this year rather than during his theoretical second term. "A commander in chief's duty is to always put the American people first; never to hope that hard-working families suffer economic pain for their own political benefit," White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement Tuesday. In an interview that aired Monday on the right-wing video platform Lindell TV, Trump said, "When there's a crash, I hope it's going to be during this next 12 months because I don't want to be Herbert Hoover." Within the first year of Hoover's presidency in 1929, the U.S. stock market experienced a devastating crash that evolved into the Great Depres