Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has seemingly backstepped from his previous stance on U.S. wages. After once arguing that wages were "too high," Trump is now saying that wages were too low.
Wages in are country are too low, good jobs are too few, and people have lost faith in our leaders. We need smart and strong leadership now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2015
This comes after Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday where he called out Trump on his wage stance and argued that Trump's supporters should support him instead.
"Meanwhile, interestingly enough, John, this is a guy who does not want to raise the minimum wage," Sanders said, according to Politics USA. "In fact, he has said that he thinks wages in America are too high. But he does want to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to top three-tenths of one percent."
Trump responded on Twitter, accusing Sanders of lying:
.@BernieSanders-who blew his campaign when he gave Hillary a pass on her e-mail crime, said that I feel wages in America are too high. Lie! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2015
However, video evidence suggests that Trump did indeed say wages were too high on at least two occasions.
During a FOX Business Network debate in November, Trump said in his opening statement: "Taxes too high, wages too high. We're not going to be able to compete against the world," according to Business Insider.
He doubled down on that statement during MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the very next day.
"It's a tough position politically," Trump said at the time. "We have to become competitive with the world. Our taxes are too high - our wages are too high. Everything is too high. We have to compete with other countries."
Trump made both comments in regards to the U.S. minimum wage. In his defense, Trump insisted sometime after the debate that he was only referring to the minimum wage and not wages in general.
