Trump Knew ‘100 Percent’ He Was ‘Fighting for the Little Guy’: Former Top Trump Economic Adviser

Former President Donald Trump pursued policies that fought against a drift into socialism and culminated in an “absolute success story for the little guy,” according to Kevin Hassett, an economist who was Trump’s top economic adviser during the initial years of the Trump administration. Going into the presidency, Trump “absolutely understood that he was fighting a very big, powerful historical force … and he also knew 100 percent that he was fighting for the little guy,” Hassett, who served as the 29th Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2017 through 2019, recently told EpochTV’s Crossroads program. Hassett is also vice president of the Lindsey Group and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. His latest book, titled “The Drift: Stopping America’s Slide to Socialism,” details how the United States has been descending into socialism and how Trump moved to resist the slide. In his book, Hassett details …