President Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, after an unsatisfactory jobs report. Instead of investigating the report's shortcomings, Trump accused her of fabricating data to benefit Kamala Harris, lacking any evidence. PolitiFact indicated that Trump's claims about manipulated data follow a long history of similar allegations. Economists assert that the procedures for calculating job statistics are unbiased and free from political influence. Former BLS commissioner William Beach confirmed that the commissioner has no capacity to manipulate data.
After a slightly disappointing jobs report, President Donald Trump fired the person who pulled together the numbers, instead of investigating why they didn't meet expectations.
Trump claimed, without proof, that Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 'faked' numbers before last year's election to help Kamala Harris.
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