President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued to insist that the former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he fired last week, “rigged” the agency’s jobs data to make him look worse than former President Joe Biden.

Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer last Friday after her office released a report showing a relatively weak labor market, with the U.S. having added just 73,000 jobs last month.

He said in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday morning, “The numbers were rigged. The numbers were rigged. Biden wasn’t doing well; he was doing poorly.”

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