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HISTORICAL FACTS: Trump says will name new economics data official this week - Caught on Camera

President Donald Trump removed the commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics after disputing jobs data (Credit: AFP)

US President Donald Trump said Monday that he would pick an "exceptional replacement" to his labor statistics chief -- after ordering her dismissal as a new report showed weakness in the US jobs market.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump reiterated -- without immediately providing evidence -- that an employment report released last Friday "was rigged."

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