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President Donald Trump claims, without a shred of evidence, that the government’s premiere economic data operation nefariously engineered negative statistics “for political purposes.”

His top economic advisers don’t share that view, even as they continue to defend his stunning – and largely impulsive – decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a poor jobs report last week.

Trump says “rigged.” His advisers say “reform.”

The rhetorical sleight of hand, difficult as it may be to catch as Trump’s economic team takes pains to defend a fixation untethered to reality , captures an important window into the internal West Wing discussions abo

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