Biden slams Trump as 'revealing twisted true colors' after Trump says he hopes economy crashes in 2024
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