President Donald Trump has tried to justify firing former Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer by claiming that her agency's gold standard employment reports were " rigged " in order to harm him politically.

Trump has provided no evidence to support his allegation, even amid mounting criticism that the removal will undermine trust in the data that is used to gauge the health of the economy and make major policy decisions.

And experts say that even if a BLS commissioner wanted to manipulate monthly jobs report data, it would be impossible given how the data is collected, analyzed and released to the public.

Nonetheless, Trump has repeatedly claimed that the BLS issued "phony" strong-looking jobs numbers during the last year of the Biden administration, onl

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