Conservative Twitter is blaming the “deep state” for the lackluster US jobs report
The US economy added 138,000 jobs in May, down from 174,000 in April and below analyst predictions of 185,000 jobs, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said today.
These stats are released monthly by the nonpartisan BLS—or as conservative Twitter saw it this morning, surreptitious agents of the so-called “deep state” hoping to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency.
The conspiracy-stoking tweets, sent just after the lackluster jobs report was released, claimed the BLS statistics were wrong and that political holdovers from the Obama administration were somehow “spiking the numbers” to make Trump look bad.
https://qz.com/997433/us-jobs-repor...ed-in-may-conservatives-blame-the-deep-state/