The following article by Damian Paletta and Jeff Stein was posted on the Washington Post website September 10, 2018:
Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett said Sept. 10 he couldn’t explain President Trump’s false tweet about the economy. (The Washington Post)
The White House’s top economist on Monday acknowledged that President Trump had made a false statement hours earlier when he used a pair of statistics to describe the strong economy.
Kevin Hassett, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, speaking in the White House press room, said he did not know how Trump obtained the false information.
“The history of thought about how errors happen is not something I can engage in, because from the initial fact to what the president said, I don’t know the whole chain of command,” Hassett said.