Kevin Hassett Lunacy: BLS Conspired To Help Obama Win In 2012

Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett claims on live TV that the Bureau of Labor Statistics manipulated data against Mitt Romney that turned the election for President Obama.

When I say claim, I really mean lied.

President Obama crushed Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election with or without the Bureau of Labor Statistics report, but there's never a bad day for a new conspiracy promoted by the Trump administration to defend his incompetence.

BLS data revisions have been commonplace since "it's common for the agency to issue revisions to the prior monthly figures, as more accurate data is collected over time."

MAGA Queen Maria Bartiromo made a face and declared her exasperation by the changing numbers (fixed) and the feared conspiracy.

BARTIROMO: And when you say potential suspicious patterns that they're gonna look at, I mean, I remember talking with you years ago about the BLS putting numbers out that could help, you know, Democrats put questions ahead of Republicans.

So how hard is it or easy is it to manipulate this data?

HASSETT: Well, the problem is that if you want to have like statistical certainty, right, that you need to have a large number of observations that are suspicious.

And so there are certainly anecdotes that are very concerning.

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