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Johnny2X2X

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Fri Aug 1, 2025, 02:38 PM Aug 1

President Trump says he will fire BLS commissioner after July jobs report disappoints [View all]

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Source: Yahoo News

"Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can't be manipulated for political purposes," Trump said in his post on Truth Social.

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/president-trump-says-he-will-fire-bls-commissioner-after-july-jobs-report-disappoints-182118416.html



And here we go. This has been predicted since November, they're going to make the BLS an arm of their political party so they can pretend everything is fine when we fall into a Depression. And the media will ask questions for about 2 or 3 weeks and then just go along.

This is terrifying. Imagine a world where UE is 15%, but the corporate media gleefully reports the BLS numbers as written by Trump to be 3%. Imagine a world with 10% inflation, but the BLS says it's 1%. That's where we're heading.
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