Former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer lashed out at President Trump on Tuesday, just weeks after she was fired for ‘cooking the books.’
Last month, President Trump fired the Biden-appointed Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after she ‘faked’ the jobs numbers before the 2024 election to try to boost Kamala Harris’s chances of a victory.
Dr. Erika McEntarfer was promptly fired after an abysmal July jobs report. The US only added 73,000 jobs in July, and the previous months were all revised down.
Trump previously accused McEntarfer of rigging today’s jobs numbers in order to make him look bad.
“In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad — Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were “taken away” on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM. Jerome “Too Late” Powell is no better! But, the good news is, our Country is doing GREAT!” Trump said last month.
On Monday, without saying his name, Erika McEntarfer lashed out at Trump during her first public remarks since her firing during a lecture at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College.
She called Trump’s decision to fire her a “dangerous step.”
McEntarfer also said that she was thrown off guard by the firing and found out Trump axed her when a reporter called her for comment.
Per CNN:
“August 1 was like any other first Friday of the month when the job numbers come out, and my quiet and usually obscure little corner the government goes about its business of telling political leaders what these data tell us about the state of the economy,” she said.
“Except, by the end of that day, I had been very publicly fired by the president of the United States and was on my way to becoming a household name. It was quite a day, to say the least.”
“Firing your chief statistician is a dangerous step. That’s an attack on the independence of an institution arguably as important as the Federal Reserve for economic stability. It has serious economic consequences, but that they would do this with no warning — it made no sense.”
“Messing with economic data is like messing with the traffic lights and turning the sensors off. Cars don’t know where to go, traffic backs up at intersections,” she said, a nod to the concerns many economists have raised since her firing.
This story originally appeared on TheGateWayPundit
