All right, welcome to the lead.

Welcome to the lead.

I'm Jake Tapper and you've been listening to President Trump taking questions from reporters at the White House.

You heard our own Caitlin Collins there asking, speaking on a range of topics from immigration to the Epstein files fallout, Israel and Gaza, the Texas redistricting fight.

He said that the FBI might need to get involved to get the

Democratic Texas legislators back to Texas. He mentioned that Vice President J.D. Vance is the

likely heir apparent to the MAGA movement, but he said there were certainly other contenders.

He made other claims not exactly rooted in fact, which brings us to our politics lead today,

which is the disconnection of President Trump from facts and reality. Today he has been having

problems with numbers. We can call it Trump math. President Trump has been creating his own

equations when it

comes to jobs numbers, poll numbers, citing fake numbers to justify actions, ignoring real ones that go

against his narrative. So let's take one second to correct the record. Look at the facts.

On Friday, when the latest jobs report was released, the president fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erica McIntyrefer.

He claimed without evidence that the jobs numbers were, quote, rigged in order to make the

Republicans and me look bad, unquote.

He claimed they were also rigged around the 2024 election, that they were made to look.

Kamala Harris and President Biden made for them to look good

right before the election. This morning, he did an interview on CNBC, he called in and the president

was asked again about this unprecedented firing, and this is how he tried to justify it.

Just days before the election, they put out numbers that it was like the country was on fire

was doing so well and then they did a revision about two weeks later and the revision was down

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