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(Composite / Photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock) IF THERE’S ONE THING DONALD TRUMP HATES—and there isn’t just one thing, there are lots of them—it’s unfavorable statistics. That’s why he was so bent out of shape when the Bureau of Labor Statistics had the audacity to report lower-than-anticipated job numbers, prompting him to fire its commissioner, Erika McEntarfer. “We need accurate Jobs …

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled one of his simmering resentments: the statistician overseeing the tabulation of the monthly figures was appointed by former President Joe Biden. Unlike Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump has been criticizing for months, the president …