'Obviously false': Analyst claims Trump's latest 'scandal' fury shows data confuses him
Raw StoryFormer President Donald Trump is pushing a new narrative that the Biden administration has falsified job numbers and was "caught" in the act — something the former president proclaimed was a "massive scandal" on Truth Social and repeated at his rally in North Carolina on Wednesday. Trump's claim stems from a revision of released job numbers over the last year — which saw them drop by 818,000 — is a fairly large revision. In fact, he wrote, by Trump's logic, "In a massive scandal, the Trump administration was caught fraudulently manipulating job statistics in August 2019 to hide the true extent of the economic ruin it had inflicted upon America. "What's important to keep in mind here is that the adjustment also doesn't do much to address the broader point Trump wants to make," wrote Bump.
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