GOP Leaders Panic and Lose it on Air as Plan Blows Up
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Donald Trump's cabinet and MAGA Republican leaders were cracking under pressure during the weekend shows when they had to explain why it was that electricity prices and groceries and other products people are buying, why the prices are surging right now. You know, like Donald Trump on the campaign, he promised that he was going to bring down electricity prices 50 to 70 percent in the first year he said it's a promise he says everything he promises is true by the way i have the receipts of that so why don't i show you that before going through the video of all of these mega republicans spiraling and lying let me just start off with the receipts as we bring here on the midas touch network so This was Donald Trump back in Asheville, North Carolina.
He's given a speech right here, and he says that he's going to reduce electricity prices 50 to 70 percent. He guarantees it. This was during the campaign, August 2024. All of the MAGA accounts posted it. This was one of his big promises. So you'll hear him say it in his own words. Here, play this clip.
By contrast, I'm announcing today that under my leadership, the United States will commit to the ambitious goal of slashing energy and electricity prices by half, at least half.
We intend to slash prices by half within 12 months at a maximum 18 months. And if it doesn't work out, you'll say, oh, well, I voted for him. I still got him down a lot, but we're looking to do it. We're looking to cut them in half and we think we'll be able to do better. And every single thing that I promised, I produced every single thing.
You will never have had energy so low as you will under a certain gentleman known as Donald J. Trump. Have you heard of him? So we think your energy bills will be down by 50 to 70 percent. How good would that be for a thing called inflation?
What did Trump promise about cutting electricity prices by 50–70% and where was the clip from?
Okay, well, now that I showed you that clip, here is what Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said when he was on ABC's This Week and George Stephanopoulos said, well, you know, electricity prices are going up. I mean, if you're electricity bills are far higher right now under donald trump than they were a year ago right i mean that's an undisputed fact but now treasury secretary scott besant and the trump regime says trump never promised it this is a state issue only states handle the electricity prices and their grids we have nothing to do with it so you can't blame us for it here play this clip
The president says he just had posted this morning that there's almost no inflation. The consumer price index is higher than it was in the beginning of the year. Electricity rates are rising. So are prices for coffee, beef, vegetables, televisions. And it's not just me. It's not just economists who are saying that. Your own Republican members of Congress are saying that, including Marjorie Taylor Greene. Let's look.
I go to the grocery store myself. Grocery prices remain high. Energy prices are high. My electricity bills are higher here in Washington, D.C. at my apartment, and they're also higher at my house in Rome, Georgia, higher than they were a year ago. So affordability is a problem.
How do you respond to Congressman Greene?
Well, George, what I would respond to is electricity prices are a state problem. And, you know, I was very interested to see in the earlier clip where the governor, the governor elect of New Jersey said, well, I'm going to bring down energy prices. Well, it was her predecessor, Phil Mercer. Murphy, who took them up. So, you know, look, there are things that the federal government can control. Local electricity prices are not one of them, but energy prices, gasoline prices are way down. And, you know, we are doing what we can every day. I think we are on a very good path to bringing prices down.
You know, it kind of reminds me of when Donald Trump promised he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Remember when he promised that he would stop Russia's invasion in 24 hours? I'll just show you a clip of that here. Play this clip. End the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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