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Former President Donald Trump’s favorite campaign promise to voters would likely blow up in Americans’ faces, economic experts told CNN on Tuesday. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, would be flirting with disaster should he try to wield the federal government’s power to broadly knock down gas and utility prices to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new CNN report. “The way to bring about deflation would be to create a massive recession,” said Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. “This is extremely dangerous and feeds on itself.” Want more breaking political ne…

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