Trump, Clinton trade accusations on economy in presidential debate

“In all fairness to Secretary Clinton when she started talking about this it was really very recently she has been doing this for 30 years and why hasn’t she made the agreements better. The NAFTA agreement is defective just because of the tax and many other reasons but just because of the fact. Secretary Clinton and others politicians should have been doing this for years not right now because of the fact that we’ve created a movement. They should have been doing this for years. What’s happened to our jobs and our country and our economy generally is, we owe 20 trillion dollars. We cannot do it any longer Lester,” Trump said.

Clinton came on the counter attack and claimed Trump benefited from the 2008 recession.

“Remember where we were eight years ago. We had the worst financial crisis the great recession the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street and created a perfect storm. In fact Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said back in 2006 ‘Gee I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money’. Well it did collapse.” Trump interjected, “That’s called business.” Clinton continued, “But nine million people 9 million people lost their jobs. Five million people lost their homes and 13 trillion dollars in family wealth was wiped out,” Clinton said.

Both Trump and Clinton, shown in opinion polls to be the least liked White House candidates in modern history, hope to use the debate to erase lingering voter doubts and address campaign-trail weaknesses.