Fact-checking a politician's data use from @nytimes
A New York Times reporter analyzes and fact-checks former President Donald Trump's pattern of using government data, explaining how he selectively embraces favorable statistics while dismissing unfavorable ones as "phony." She provides specific examples concerning jobs reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, budget forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office, and crime data for Washington D.C., contrasting Trump's claims with the factual context and evidence.
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Transcript
President Trump uses data to benefit himself. When the data shows his policies in a good light, he cites them eagerly and willingly. But when they are bad for his political narratives, the data to him is undoubtedly fake or fraudulent or phony. Phony false numbers. Phony numbers. We fact check some of Donald Trump's claims on the data. In April, Trump celebrated reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In three months, we have created 350,000 jobs. This was true in what the BLS reported, but
Topics: Politics
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