President Trump discusses the positive gains of the stock market under his presidency and contrasts it to what might have happened had he not been elected.
President Trump, in his remarks about his impeachment acquittal on Thursday afternoon, claimed the stock market would have crashed if Democrat Hillary Clinton defeated him in the 2016 election.
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“If we didn’t win, the stock market would’ve crashed,” he said. “The market was going up a lot before the election … and then it went up tremendously from the time we won to the time we took office.”
The Senate on Wednesday voted to acquit Trump of two impeachment charges: abuse of power and obstruction of justice.
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