HonishReport: TRUMP on Crash of Real Estate

“This is an economy that can’t find the bottom of bad news,” one reporter says. “Ten years of saving, completely gone — vanished,” another says. “The biggest crash of household wealth that we’ve ever had in the United States,” someone else says. “9 million Americans lost their jobs,” text on the screen reads. “5 million families lost their homes,” another follows. “And the man who could be our next president was rooting for it to happen,” it says over a picture of Trump sitting in an ornately decorated room. Then audio from 2006 begins playing where Trump says: “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy. If there is a bubble burst, as they call it, you know, you could make a lot of money.” “If Donald wins, you lose,” the final text on the screen reads. Tuesday afternoon the Clinton campaign held a call with reporters with Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, and Mayor Bob Buckhorn, D-Fla., to slam Trump over his comments. “They may look like nameless, faceless numbers from his perch, gold-plated perch, in Trump Tower, but these are real human beings in real communities that are just trying to get ahead,” Ryan said. The assumed general election matchup (while not guaranteed, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is still in the race) between Clinton and Trump has already started to get nasty. On Tuesday, Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, to expect an even more aggressive Trump moving forward. “He’s not going to let these attacks pass. He’s going to engage, and he’s going to engage harder than they’ve ever been used to. And you know what the American people say? They want a fighter,” Lewandowski said on CBS News’ This Morning. Donald Trump released a statement in reply to the video early Tuesday evening. "I am a businessman and I have made a lot of money in down markets. In some cases as much as I’ve made when markets are good. Frankly, this is the kind of thinking our country needs, understanding how to get a good result out of a very bad and sad situation," Trump said in the statement. "Politicians have no idea how to do this – they don’t have a clue.