Trump May Be on Shaky Ground. But His Economy Appears Rock-Solid.

President Trump is on the rocks over the Ukraine-gate scandal. But Friday’s jobs numbers show the economy is not.

The unemployment rate is the key number to note. It dropped to a 50-year low of 3.5 percent. That’s a superb result, one not many people expected to see when the president took office. No one president should ever take credit for economic outcomes, but it’s also pretty clear that Trump’s policies have helped spur continued growth in what is now the United States’ longest economic expansion on record.