GOP insider slaps down Trump for blaming Biden for his screw-ups

Donald Trump's complaint that former President Joe Biden is to blame for the terrible first quarter GDP report -- then adding that the second quarter report will also be his fault –– did not get a sympathetic ear from former GOP lawmaker John Kasich on Thursday.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Ana Cabrera, Kasich –– who normally finds fault with both parties when invited on cable TV shows -- focused entirely on the embattled Trump.

After watching a clip of Trump stating, "This is Biden. And you could even say the next quarter is sort of Biden because it doesn’t just happen on a daily or an hourly basis," before adding, "The stock market in this case is, it says how bad the situation we inherited. This is a quarter that we looked at today, and I, we took, all of us, together, we came in on January 20th," Kasich begged to differ.

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Kasich first indicated that he can't understand why Trump is still sticking to his tariff plan that has been panned on both sides of the aisle, explaining, "I have a hard time as I sit here thinking about this on why do they keep hanging with this stuff. I mean, this is not working."

Noting he had similar battles when he was governor of Ohio, he added, "I mean, I got beaten to a pulp over my views and at some point I said, 'You know, I guess I'm not right'."

Turning to Trump's Biden-blaming, he continued, "You can't blame Biden. I mean, what, are you kidding me? That's like the dog stole my, you know, ate my homework. I mean, it doesn't work, nobody's going to believe that."

"I mean, the core supporters of Trump might or they'll say, give them more time, is what they normally say, but I don't think that blaming it on Biden –– that's such an old song," he told the MSNBC host.

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