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‘This Is Being Manipulated’: James Carville Says Biden Needs To Stop Blaming Putin And Tax Oil Companies More

Virginia Kruta
‘This Is Being Manipulated’: James Carville Says Biden Needs To Stop Blaming Putin And Tax Oil Companies More
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Democratic strategist James Carville once coined the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid!” — but he told CNN’s Jim Acosta that President Joe Biden could alleviate some of his own economic woes if he would just tax oil companies more.

Carville — who previously served as an adviser to former President Bill Clinton — made an appearance on Acosta’s weekend show on Saturday afternoon, and the two discussed both the state of the economy and Biden’s insistence on continuing to claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin caused the massive spike in gas prices when he chose to send Russian forces to invade Ukraine.

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