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One of the many "dirty tricks" Nixon tried to do in his early years at the White House was undermine the job & unemployment numbers coming out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics office. Wonder how things are going today...

markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/no…
Blast from the Past: There was one president who tried to manipulate BLS.

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Just think of ALL the industries that are affected by ADVANTAGEOUS unemployment & job numbers:

✔ Banking
✔ Stock Market
✔ Interest Rates
✔ Political corporate donors
✔ Elections
Would love an investigative journalist to sniff around this topic.

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CODA: Who was the political appointee Nixon had do his dirty work at BLS: Fred Malek, proud mentor of Sarah Palin.

And yes, Trump appointed him to be his chairman of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He died last month.

nytimes.com/2019/03/27/obi…
"My strength is loyalty, my downfall is loyalty," Malek said. "I'm the guy who waved goodbye to Nixon from the WH lawn."

It is that sense of loyalty that has led Malek to emerge as the leading defender of Sarah Palin in the wake of the 2008 election.

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PSA to non-lawyer citizens from another non-lawyer/Thread:
The 6th Amendment grants citizens the right of having representation in court. What does that mean to the lawyer? They have to zealously represent their client - even if that means making arguments that sound ridiculous.
Making no argument is worse than making AN argument, no matter how crazy. So when we hear crazy arguments from Manafort or Trump's lawyers, we should allow ourselves to get concerned IF: 1) Did the judge buy the ridiculous argument and rule with them?
2) Was it Trump's personal lawyers or WH counsel and/or Justice making the dumb argument Because WH counsel and Justice are OUR lawyers, not Trump's.

THIS ⬇️ argument was by Trump's personal lawyers, who are just doing their job - offering an argument.

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Former Amb. Downer: "I have no idea why he was blabbering this, but if you say that sort of thing to somebody who is part of the Five Eyes intelligence community, I mean I would regard myself as a WARRIOR for the Western alliance."
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Who benefits from this one-man, man-made Trade War with China?

The black market. Uh huh ⬇️.
Because we all know this guy ⬇️ doesn't care about things being made in the US.
Yep. This guy ⬇️. Are we now getting why @LincolnsBible @ninaandtito keep calling "The DONald" a mobster?

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