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Rhiannon12866

(241,931 posts) Wed Aug 13, 2025, 01:05 AM Aug 13

Lawrence: Trump predicts a '1929-style result' if Trump returns the tariff money he illegally took - The Last Word MSNBC

After appearing on “The Last Word,” Donald Trump attacked Nobel Prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman. Professor Krugman returns to the program to respond to Trump’s comment and to discuss the “madness” Trump has brought to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Krugman tells MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that no one is going to believe the numbers the “Trumpified BLS produces.” - Aired on 08/12/2025.

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Lawrence: Trump predicts a '1929-style result' if Trump returns the tariff money he illegally took - The Last Word MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Aug 13 OP

Idiot has it bass ackwards Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 13 #1

Krugman points out that law requires that monthly data be publishes by BLS. SunSeeker Aug 13 #2

Everything that MFer does is against the law! ReRe Aug 13 #3

but.......they need time to cook the numbers Skittles Aug 13 #4