President Donald Trump said the stock market would plummet if he were to be removed from office.
“If I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor,” the president said in a Fox News interview that aired Thursday.
“Because without this thinking, you would see numbers that you wouldn’t believe in reverse,” Trump said, pointing at his head. “I got rid of regulations. The tax cut was a tremendous thing.”
The stock market has had little reaction so far to Trump’s renewed legal troubles this week with two former advisors now guilty of criminal acts and one implicating him directly. The Dow fell slightly on Wednesday and stock futures were little changed Thursday morning. Traders say the market right now expects Trump to avoid impeachment unless the special counsel investigation can tie the president directly to collusion with Russia to sway the 2016 election.
The economy expanded at a 4.1 percent pace last quarter and the Atlanta Fed is forecasting 4.3 percent growth for this quarter. Under Trump, unemployment has fallen to 3.9 percent, around the lowest since 1969.
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