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Unemployment improved — because thousands of workers disappeared. Where did they go?
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Cause the numbers aren't true.
Isn't that obvious ?
Trump fired the last woman doing the job because she wouldn't lie. He found someone who would.
Biden camp lied towards the end as well
So?
Just saying, why call out a single president for lying, call both of them out
So it wasn't Trump's firing of an honest lady, politicians lie, including the ones you like.
There's a problem on both sides of American politics with politician worship, they cannot accept any criticism of their guy, especially if it's a factual rebuttal to a negative statement they made about the other guy.
They can't accept someone pointing out the timeline doesn't follow Trump being the only bad guy, so downvotes and "Biden is not president".
Yeah, and Trump didn't invent lying about job numbers, him being the current president doesn't mean you can credit him for pioneering every wrong doing he's ever done, he's mostly following established precedents, he just did away with any formalities and attempt to hide it.
Biden isn't the president anymore