CNN Fact Checks Trump's Job Report Claims: 'Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong'

Trump's Claims on Job Report Revisions

• 🎯 President Trump has continued to claim the jobs report system is rigged and political, particularly regarding revisions.
• 🗣️ He stated that a jobs report released just before an election showed the country was doing well, but was later revised down by almost 900,000 jobs.
• 💡 Trump argued that if he had lost the election, he would have claimed the numbers were phony and revised later.

Fact-Checking Trump's Statements

• ❌ CNN fact-checked Trump's claims, stating he was wrong about the jobs report before the election, wrong about its revision (it was revised upward after the election, not downward), and wrong about the timing of a large revision.
• 📌 The significant revision of 800,000 fewer jobs added in the previous year actually occurred in August, not after the election as implied.
• 📉 The jobs report on November 1st, just days before the election, showed only 12,000 jobs added, which was described as almost as bad as May and June numbers during the Trump administration.

Reasons for Ousting BLS Commissioner

• ⚠️ The firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Ericka McEntarfer, a Biden appointee, was reportedly triggered by revisions to previous months' job numbers.
• 📈 Trump was particularly bothered by revisions to job numbers from May and June, which had been celebrated, but were later found to be lower than initially reported.
• 🏛️ One White House official stated that Trump saw the revisions and