New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was manipulated for the 2024 presidential election.

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead,” the anchor said, “in trying to justify his firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” the president “said that she gave out great jobs reports right before the election to help Harris and Biden and then revised it downward after.”

“That’s not true,” Tapper said in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.

“On the BLS issue. I think he has convinced himself that that is what happened, as you said, and as Joe Kernen said in real time, that was not true,” Haberman later responded.

Last Friday, Trump directed his team to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Stati

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