Look, you know, this is kind of something I've been talking about since, you know, 2018.

When he gets news he doesn't like, he needs someone to blame because he won't take the responsibility himself.

And this is the action of a petulant child.

Like, you give me bad news, I fire the messenger.

Anybody who knows how, look, as governors, we were very focused on this data as well, as it applied to our individual state, because those numbers mattered for how people perceived how you were doing on the economy.

So we know how important they are.

So we used to look at it very carefully.

It seems to me from everything I

learned over my ears as governor, that it would be almost impossible for anyone to try to rig these

numbers because so many people are involved in putting them together. And in the end, when it comes

to the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the woman who was fired,

when that happens, all she's doing is being a conduit of the information.

She can't go back in through and start lining, line-iteming it around.

So it's irresponsible from a position of facts, but it also shows you the way he manages.

Numbers.

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