WASHINGTON (AP) — “Depressing.”

“CRAZY!!”

That's how staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics reacted after President Donald Trump fired its commissioner, Erika McEntarfer , after a dismal jobs report issued Aug. 1 undermined the White House's claims of an economic boom.

The emails obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act suggest an agency with little of the corrupting partisanship that Trump had claimed. He called the report “phony” and “rigged” after it indicated a paltry 73,000 jobs were added in July and after downward revisions that showed 258,000 fewer jobs were added in May and June than previously reported.

After the commissioner's firing , BLS employees talked about the importance of accurate numbers and professional integrity in producing data

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