Still, some warnings from financial writers have been ominous: Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, said the firing was “the most dangerous” thing the president had done and that it is unlikely we can now trust BLS data. Question: In wake of the Trump firing, can we still trust BLS data?

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” Yet revisions by the BLS were neither historic nor evidence of corruption.