Trump Blames Covid for Adding to Country’s Debt, Completely Dodges When He’s Informed Money Spent Well Before Pandemic

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Former President Donald Trump was confronted about adding trillions to the national debt during a visit to a crypto-themed bar in New York.

Reason’s Nick Gillespie confronted Trump as he was leaving the Manhattan bar about adding $7.8 trillion to the national debt and the former president blamed the Covid pandemic and dodged when he was informed the majority of debt he added came well before the pandemic.

“You signed legislation adding $7.8 trillion to the deficit in your first four years. Why will it be different if you’re reelected?” Gillespie asked Trump as he was leaving the bar.

“Well, we had a thing called Covid,” Trump said.

“But you added it before Covid,” Gillespie responded.

“And we were getting the country all set with our liquid gold and all the other assets that we have. We were going to bring that way down,” Trump said.

As Gillespie noted after the interview, less than half the debt added during Trump’s four years in the White House is related to pandemic spending. The national debt is currently over $27 trillion.

“How are you going to cut it down if you’re cutting taxes?” Gillespie asked Trump.

“New growth,” Trump said as he left.

Trump visited PubKey last week (Reason’s video was published this week) and became the first candidate to make a bitcoin transaction on the campaign trail. PubKey co-owner Thomas Pacchia told Fox Business the visit was “surreal.”

“It was really cool. It was a bitcoin transaction. It was surreal, we’re still processing, I would say. He was incredibly kind and generous with his time,” he said. “He wanted to make sure he saw everybody, bought some hamburgers.”

Watch above via Reason.