Trump admin attempting to explain why its new stats boss was at the Jan 6 Riot/Insurrection. I am sure it was fine and just a coincidence.
White House Scrambles to Explain Why Trump’s New Stats Boss Was at the Capitol on Jan. 6
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President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the Bureau of Labor Statistics was hanging around the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but the White House swears he’s not an insurrectionist.
Earlier this week, the president announced that he was nominating Heritage Foundation economist and
Project 2025 architect E.J. Antoni to replace the previous stats chief, whom Trump
abruptly fired on Aug. 1 after receiving several months of weak jobs data.
The choice to appoint a MAGA hardliner to a position that requires nonpartisan professional analysis
sparked immediate fears that BLS data will no longer be reliable if the Senate confirms Antoni.
Adding to those partisan concerns, it turns out Antoni—who also happens to have a giant picture of Adolf Hitler’s favorite battleship
hanging in his office—was at the Capitol on the day a mob of Trump supporters violently tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.