Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump claimed multiple times that if former Vice President Joe Biden were elected to the presidency, the stock market would crash and Americans’ retirement funds would be wiped out.
But on Monday — the first day the stock market was open since Biden was declared the winner — the Dow Jones surged by nearly 1,400 points, setting a new record after AstraZeneca announced the success of its new coronavirus vaccine.
It’s proof that one of Trump’s most frequent lines of attack against Biden was demonstrably false. Continue reading.