Donald Trump has assailed the government’s official economic data this summer by calling it “phony” or “fake news.” He likes to say the “actual” number for jobs statistics or the inflation rate would be much more flattering to him — and would look worse for President Joe Biden.
It’s a return to form for the former president who called the unemployment rate “total fiction” during his 2016 campaign before flipping and touting that same data once he was in office.
This time…
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