'You can’t lie to the American people' Joe slams Trump for using Heritage Foundation jobs numbers

from MSNBC

 

 

Still Fuming Over a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Finds Some Numbers He Likes

(The data from which these numbers have been derived has never been published anywhere and they say they will try to publish it sometime in the next 6 months. It's secret data only the Heritage Foundation can see. But don't worry. It's accurate. Just ask the neoliberal globalists who put together Project 2025 and Project Esther. They have nothing to hide.) 

from the New York Times

President Trump finally got the economic numbers he wanted. 

Still bristling about last week’s less-than-impressive report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Mr. Trump summoned reporters into the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon to present them with more favorable data.

During an impromptu news conference, the president displayed charts from Stephen Moore, an economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, that he said proved his economy was better than that of his predecessor, President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

“All new numbers,” Mr. Trump said, holding up a chart.

The typically humdrum task of counting jobs, income levels and other economic data has become decidedly dramatic during the second Trump administration. For months, Mr. Trump and his top allies had praised the Bureau of Labor Statistics when it showed strong job growth. But after the bureau put out weak job numbers last week, Mr. Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the agency’s commissioner, and claimed that the figures were rigged. (Instead of offering proof, he said it was “my opinion.”)

The firing of the commissioner, whose job was merely to count the data accurately, left the president in search of some different data, more to his liking.

Enter Mr. Moore.

It just so happened that the Heritage Foundation economist had been crunching some census data, and he began assembling the figures into graphs that he knew would please the president...

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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention

from ProPublica

When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year with a degree in politics, he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas. “Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space.

His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise is now a Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million grant program intended to help communities combat violent extremism.

The White House appointed Fugate, a former Trump campaign worker who interned at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, to a Homeland Security role that was expanded to include the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships. Known as CP3, the office has led nationwide efforts to prevent hate-fueled attacks, school shootings and other forms of targeted violence.

Fugate’s appointment is the latest shock for an office that has been decimated since President Donald Trump returned to the White House and began remaking national security to give it a laser focus on immigration...

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