President Donald Trump and one of his top economic advisors on Monday stoked baseless conspiracies about federal jobs data, suggesting without evidence that Friday's weaker-than-expected employment report had been "rigged" by federal workers bent on sabotaging the president.

"All over the U.S. government, there have been people who have been resisting Trump everywhere they can," National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Monday on CNBC .

Trump, meanwhile, claimed on social media that the report, which painted a dour picture of the economy, was "RIGGED" and the previous months' revisions had been "CONCOCTED in order to make a great Republican Success look less stellar!!!"

The only way to protect the integrity of economic data, said Hassett, is to replace the economists

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