White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions from reporters during a press briefing in the White House on Thursday. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

The year-over-year  inflation rate  in January, the month President Donald Trump returned to the White House,  was 3.0% .

The year-over-year inflation rate in September, the most recent month for which Consumer Price Index figures have been released, was … the same, 3.0% .

The fact that the inflation rate eight months into Trump’s term was unchanged from the one he inherited has debunked his triumphant claims that “ inflation has stopped ” after he “ inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country .” So what is a White House to do when the real comparisons aren’t working in its favor?

Trump’s team has cho

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