The View’s Meghan McCain accused her co-host Joy Behar of spreading “fake news” over claims that the economy is slowing down during the show Friday morning.
The U.S. economy added 136,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate hit a new 50-year low at 3.5%, according to federal data released Friday. The number of new jobs fell short of the 145,000 jobs that the Labor Department expected to be created; however, the steady low employment indicates a strong economy.
“They might want — the media needs to stop doing Trump 24/7 and start talking about the fact that the economy is really slowing down. Jobs are slowing down. The farmers are in trouble. Manufacturing is taking a dive,” Behar stated.
McCain pushed back, “The economy is not slowing down.”
“Yeah, it is, the Dow dropped 800 points in two days,” Behar countered.
“The economy is not slowing down. That’s part of the problem,” McCain argued. “That’s just fake news that the economy is slowing down. It’s just fake news. It’s part of the paradigm of why his base is still standing with him.”
