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Scott Jennings brutally fact-checked while claiming Trump lowered gas prices

Gas Prices, Propaganda, and the Cheapness of the Trump DefenseThe Gaslight Is the PointScott Jennings did not enter that CNN panel to learn anything about gasoline prices. He entered to launder a political claim: that Trump has made life cheaper. Abby Phillip immediately punctured it, and Neera Tanden supplied the basic factual context. The segment mattered because it exposed a familiar conservative move: take a messy pocketbook issue, strip out the timeline, and use it as a loyalty test for Trump.That is not analysis. It is narrative laundering.Who Actually Has PowerThe people with…

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