During a 30-minute interview with CNBC, former President Donald Trump made various unfounded claims regarding job numbers and the 2020 election. He claimed that job reports were rigged and dismissed unfavorable polls as fake while suggesting he had a 70% approval rating. Anchor Joe Kernen attempted to fact-check Trump, correcting him about job revisions and the timeline of reports. Kernen also highlighted discrepancies in Trump's assertions, particularly regarding his votes in Texas and the context of employment statistics.
Kernen fairly described as mostly pro-Trump, seemed tasked with being the Trump wrangler, forced to quasi-fact-check the former president's trademark stream of baseless claims.
Trump asserted that the jobs numbers were rigged, which he cited in defense of firing Dr. Erika McEntarfer, and his persistent lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
As Kernen tried to hold Trump to the facts, the former president interrupted himself: But let's get back to Texas because you said you were going to say something else.
Trump dismissed all unfavorable polling, particularly from Fox News, as fake, while claiming some polls showed him with a 70% approval rating.
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