Former BLS Commissioner Destroys Trump’s Firing Excuse

When Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner last week, it was proof positive that he knows he’s incompetent and/or deliberately sabotaging the economy. Otherwise, he would not have been so triggered by one not-positive report.

Instead of exuding confidence over his economic policies, President Cry Baby accused Commissioner Erika Entarfer of having rigged the data for political reasons.

But it’s not possible for her or any other commissioner to rig the data.

William Beach, who served as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner during Trump’s first term, explained why to NPR:

“The commissioner has a leadership role for sure, you know, CEO and so forth, but the processes of creating the numbers, particularly the employment numbers and the inflation numbers, are really kept really distant from the commissioner. Remember the commissioner is the only person who represents the administration in the bureau. And so the numbers are collected without the commissioner's involvement in any way. They're processed by BLS at the regional and at the national level. They're prepared for the data systems. They're even prepared for the publications itself before the commissioner even sees them.”

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