The New York Daily News

President Donald Trump has, since he first returned to the White House in January, been on a steady march towards authoritarianism, and took another big leap in that direction when he fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, a nonpartisan career expert and economics Ph.D., after her agency produced a softer jobs report than he wanted to see, claiming against all evidence and the truth that she had somehow manipulated the results.

It was a total lie, another whopper from the president. The BLS data isn’t rigged or fake or politicized. It is the best available survey of the U.S. jobs market. The numbers go up and they go down not on the whims of the commissioner and the dedicated civil service employees, but according to the employment levels

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