‘If They Worked, I’d Go Along With It’: Trump Sends Mixed Message While Accusing Harris Of Wanting ‘Price Controls’

Former President Donald Trump gave a press conference from his country club in New Jersey on Thursday and hammered Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden over inflation.

“Flour is up 38% and eggs are up 46%, and many items are up at much higher rates than that,” Trump fumed, discussing price increases due to inflation. He added:

Now, Kamala is reportedly proposing communist price controls. She wants price controls. And if they worked, I’d go along with it too. But they don’t work. They actually have the exact opposite impact and effect. But it leads to food shortages, rationing, hunger, dramatically more inflation.

Their Inflation Reduction Act, by the way, was a disaster. It’s what caused the inflation. Their Inflation Reduction Act was a con job. They actually admitted that it wasn’t really for inflation, that they did it. They don’t know why they did it. But they named it the Inflation Reduction Act, which was a very nice name. Got approved based on that. Unfortunately, people didn’t understand it, I understood it, I said, that’s going to cause tremendous inflation. And it did, among other things like energy.

“She’s running on the Maduro plan. We call it the Maduro plan, like something straight out of Venezuela or the Soviet Union. This announcement is an admission that her economic policies have totally failed and caused really a catastrophe for our country. And beyond that, a catastrophe in the world,” Trump claimed.

Notably, Harris has yet to announce her economic policy Trump is referring to, which is being touted as a ban on price gouging for food. The Associated Press reported that Harris is “zeroing in on high food prices as her campaign previews an economic policy speech Friday in North Carolina, promising to push for a federal ban on price gouging on groceries as she looks to address one of voters’ top concerns.”

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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