Trump's attacks on labor data raise concerns among investors
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President Trump claimed the August jobs report was 'rigged' and that revisions were politically motivated, but fact-checking shows that revisions are normal, not evidence of manipulation, and Trump's specific claims about timing and magnitude of revisions are false.
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