Donald Trump requested the report of the main agency for the United States on Friday after the publication of bad employment figures, an announcement that has surprised certain economists and scandalized his opponents.
“I just learned that the ’employment figures’ of our country are made by a person designated by Joe Biden, Dr. Erika Mtntarfer, (…) who has falsified employment figures before the elections to increase the possibilities of Kamala’s victory” (Harris, his rival in the last presidential elections), said the head of state on his social social platform.
“I asked my team to send to this person (…), it will be replaced by someone much more competent and qualified,” he added.
Accused of having inflated the figures
In a second message, Donald Trump denounced figures, according to him, “full to give a bad image of the Republicans and me”, without presenting evidence of this manipulation.
Later, during an exchange with the press, he launched: “We need people we can trust,” then accused the manager again to have inflated the figures in the past for the benefit of the previous administration, that of the Democrat Joe Biden.
Erika Mtntarfer is the commissioner of the Federal Statistics Office, an organization that publishes the reference figures on employment, productivity and prices in the United States.
“The completely unfounded dismissal of Erika Mcedarfer, which happened to me, is a dangerous precedent and undermines the office mission,” he criticized his predecessor in this position, William Beach, in X, who had officiated during the previous period of Donald Trump.
Source: BFM TV
