Republican Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter stuttered and stammered his way through an interview with CNN's Boris Sanchez when he was called out for his blatant hypocrisy in supporting Trump's illegal bribe for GOP votes in the midterm. You could literally see Sanchez fuming the more this liar talked.
Sanchez committed the sin of remembering and quoting something this clown said during the Biden administration, and Carter tried to call it "apples to oranges." Well, he's right in one regard, which is that Biden didn't want to send out money to bribe voters, but to actually help people instead, so in that regard, it's not the same.
Here's the exchange via CNN after Carter said he was in favor of Trump wanting to hand out the $5000 checks:
SANCHEZ: Well, Congressman, back in 2022, you argued that giving Americans $1,400 checks under President Biden's American Rescue Plan fueled, quote, waste and inflation. You actually wrote a bill, the PAID Act, to take the leftover money from those pandemic funds and put it toward the debt. Now Trump wants to give more than three times that amount.
How is that consistent? How is this different from the money Biden was trying to give folks?
CARTER: The money Biden was trying to give folks was a result of a pandemic that the Democrats and Fauci had pulled the wool over our eyes. And there's no question about that. And this is apples and oranges here.
We are trying to put more money in people's pockets in order to stimulate our economy. And this is why this is so important.
SANCHEZ: Congressman -- pulled the wool over our eyes. How exactly? The entire economy effectively shut down during the pandemic.
The argument from the Trump administration and then the Biden administration was that these supplemental funds were going to help people. Right now, unemployment is 4 percent. Inflation is creeping up.
Gas and diesel prices are near record levels. The president wants to throw about a trillion dollars on top of that.
Are you just supporting this idea of giving Americans money because the president is a Republican?
CARTER: No, not at all. I'm not supporting that at all. I mean, look, I serve on the Budget Committee.
I get it. We got $40 trillion in debt. We've got to address this.
I understand that. But right now, people are hurting. They need more money in their pockets.
And this is a way for us to get more money to them. Yes, this is a different from what the Biden-Harris administration and their policies. It's much different.
And I would mention to you that inflation is lower than it was during their administration.
SANCHEZ: Well, the argument was, Congressman, I'm sorry.
CARTER: We do have a recovering economy.
SANCHEZ: The argument you made was that inflation was worse under Biden and Harris because they gave Americans money, just supplemental funds. And now you're saying we should actually give them more than three times that amount and that won't lead to inflation?
CARTER: No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is simply that people right now, our economy, we need this stimulus. And this is going to help stimulate our economy.
And that's what the president is trying to do. And that's what we've done in this administration. You know, look, we're coming up on midterm elections and we're not going to run from our record in the Republican Party.
In fact, we're going to run toward our record. We have been successful in putting more money in people's pockets through the Working Families Tax Cut Act. We've been more successful in making sure that our economy is working.
And something that is very important to me professionally as a pharmacist that has flown under the radar that the media has not picked up on is the fact that we decreased prescription drug prices. 3.1 percent decrease in the last year. The highest decrease in over 60 years. And how did we do this? We did it through the administration with Trump Rx. We did it through Most Favored Nations.
We did it with the Republican Congress by putting more transparency in the middleman, the PBMs. That's how we did it.
SANCHEZ: You can make the argument that the administration helped to lower prescription prices, sure. But it doesn't answer the question of how you can argue that a few years ago, giving $1,400 stimulus checks to people was wasteful and inflationary. And now you're talking about giving them $5,000 checks when the economy, according to the Fed, is already in a tough place when it comes to inflation.
They're talking about potentially raising interest rates. How is a $5,000 check to each American adult not going to be inflationary, Congressman?
CARTER: Again, this is apples and oranges that you're trying to compare here. What we're trying to do is to stimulate the economy. And this is going to make people --
(CROSSTALK)
SANCHEZ: You may be trying to stimulate the economy, it could still lead to inflation. Could it not still lead to inflation, whether it's a stimulus or an emergency health plan or a monetary effort by the administration to help folks? At the end of the day, it's still inflationary, isn't it?
CARTER: We have addressed inflation. We've addressed that through this Republican Congress, through this Republican administration. And we've made sure that we've got inflation under control.
And this is why the Fed, instead of talking about raising rates, they need to be talking about lowering rates, lowering rates to make it possible for people to have affordable mortgage, particularly young people. That's what we need to be talking about.
SANCHEZ: Congressman, I believe that at last check, wholesale inflation is actually up.
I would have liked to have seen him hit him harder on the inflation lie, because they keep conflating how high inflation was at its peak during the Biden administration compared to what Trump inherited, which is ridiculous.
Sanchez instead moved on to the topic of the war with Iran, where Carter didn't fare much better. These MAGA Trump enablers all fall apart when someone actually presses them on their lies and hypocrisy.
