Welcome to left, right and center, everybody. I'm David Green. So numbers never tell the whole story, right? It's a common refrain for critics of statistics, whether it's sports or, in the case we're going to be talking about today, politics. But what about the stories that we tell about numbers? So President Trump says his economic policies have been a big

hit. The White House has touted tariffs, foreign investment, massive cuts to federal spending as

beneficial to the growth of the U.S. economy. But then the Bureau of Labor Statistics released

its July jobs report, which reflected small growth in July and also

showed downward revisions for the months of May and June. The actual statistics, around 73,000

jobs added in July and 258,000 less jobs added in May and June than was originally reported.

The president went on social media and said

those numbers were rigged to make him and Republicans look bad. He repeated those claims in an

interview with CNBC's Joe Kernan. The numbers were rigged. Biden wasn't doing well. He was doing

poorly. They announced these phenomenal numbers, two days before the election, and a little bit

before that, always these great numbers, and you knew it wasn't doing well.

You knew prices were through the roof, and inflation was terrible.

The whole thing was bad.

But think of it.

Then they did the biggest revision, I think in history, of almost 900,000 jobs.

And it turned out to be more than that because later on they did another revision.

And so they gave phony numbers in order to win the election.

After I won the election, I said, too big to rig.

But after I won the election, then they announced a downward number,

in other words, to bring them back to reality.

And I said, wow, supposing I would have lost, I would have blamed that.

And people would have said I was a conspiracy theorist.

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