{"id":2470270,"date":"2025-08-03T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-obama-adviser-says-trump-way-beyond-nixon-after-firing-bls-head\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:49:10","slug":"ex-obama-adviser-says-trump-way-beyond-nixon-after-firing-bls-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-obama-adviser-says-trump-way-beyond-nixon-after-firing-bls-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Obama adviser says Trump &#8216;way beyond&#8217; Nixon after firing BLS head"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-obama-adviser-says-trump-way-beyond-nixon-after-firing-bls-head%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2470270&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Larry Summers, a former Obama economic adviser, condemned President Donald Trump for firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-to-end-trumps-policy-to-withhold-white-house-visitor-logs-from-public\/\" title=\"Biden Admin To End Trump\u2019s Policy To Withhold White House Visitor Logs From Public\">disappointing jobs report<\/a>, stating that Trump&#8217;s actions go &#8220;way beyond&#8221; those of Richard Nixon. Summers criticized the firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer,who was dismissed following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-jobless-claims-hit-highest-rate-since-january\/\" title=\"New Jobless Claims Hit Highest Rate Since January\">job growth figures<\/a> that showed only 73,000 new jobs in July and downward revisions for previous months. Trump accused McEntarfer of manipulating data, a claim Summers called &#8220;preposterous,&#8221; emphasizing that the BLS follows rigorous procedures and that the numbers align with other private-sector data. Summers warned that such dismissals reflect a troubling move toward authoritarianism, likening it to attacks on the press and academic institutions. McEntarfer, confirmed by the Senate with bipartisan support earlier this year, expressed gratitude for her service after her firing.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Ex-Obama adviser says Trump &lsquo;way beyond&rsquo; Nixon after firing BLS commissioner<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2195413\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>An ex-Obama adviser on Sunday said President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> went &ldquo;way beyond anything <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/richard-nixon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Richard Nixon\">Richard Nixon<\/a> ever did&rdquo; after he fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3488106\/economy-jobs-july-report-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">lackluster jobs report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Summers, who served as director of the White House&rsquo;s National Economic Council between 2009 and 2010, criticized Trump&rsquo;s firing and claimed it would lead to an authoritarian regime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3489638\/smithsonian-pressure-trump-impeachment-exhibit\/\">Smithsonian says it wasn&#8217;t pressured to remove Trump mention in impeachment exhibit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3488610\/us-automakers-arent-jazzed-trump-lowered-tariffs-on-europe-and-japan\/\">US automakers aren&#8217;t jazzed Trump lowered tariffs on Europe and Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3489226\/laura-loomer-influence-grows-trump-vetter-in-chief\/\">Laura Loomer&#8217;s influence grows as she carves out role as Trump&#8217;s outside vetter-in-chief<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m surprised that other officials have not responded by resigning themselves, as took place when Richard Nixon fired people lawlessly,&rdquo; Summers <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/1952024319992693024?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on the Sunday morning program <em>This Week<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The economist was seemingly referring to Nixon&rsquo;s firing of the Department of Justice special prosecutor tasked with investigating the Watergate scandal in 1973. The prosecutor&rsquo;s removal led to a series of resignations within the department, known as the &ldquo;Saturday Night Massacre.&rdquo; Nixon was not impeached over Watergate, but he eventually resigned.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of new employment numbers showing only 73,000 jobs being added in July. The report also estimated that some 258,000 fewer jobs were added in May and June, lower than previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >report caused markets<\/a> to sink and raised questions about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/markets-are-happy-with-trump-return-so-far-at-least-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Markets are happy with Trump return, so far at least - Washington Examiner\">labor market&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s health, prompting Trump to blame McEntarfer for the weak report, which he claimed was fabricated.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need accurate Jobs Numbers,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114954846612623858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"posted on Truth Social\">posted on Truth Social<\/a>. &ldquo;I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can&rsquo;t be manipulated for political purposes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Summers called the president&rsquo;s accusation &ldquo;preposterous,&rdquo; noting the BLS followed &ldquo;detailed procedures&rdquo; in creating the new employment numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no conceivable way that the head of the BLS could have manipulated this number,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The numbers are in line with what we&rsquo;re seeing from all kinds of private sector sources.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism,&rdquo; the Obama-era economic adviser added. &ldquo;Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, it goes with launching assaults on universities, it goes with launching assaults on law firms that defend clients that the elected boss finds uncongenial. This is really scary stuff.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3488912\/trump-fires-labor-statistics-official-weak-jobs-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"TRUMP FIRES TOP LABOR STATISTICS OFFICIAL AFTER WEAK JOBS REPORT\">TRUMP FIRES TOP LABOR STATISTICS OFFICIAL AFTER WEAK JOBS REPORT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McEntarfer led the BLS since January 2024 after she was confirmed by the Senate in a bipartisan 86-8 vote. Then-Sens. JD Vance and Marco Rubio, now members of the Trump administration, voted in favor of her confirmation at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The former agency chief <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/erikamcentarfer.bsky.social\/post\/3lvf3yddtrk27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reacted\">reacted<\/a> to the news on Friday, saying it was an &ldquo;honor&rdquo; to serve as BLS commissioner &ldquo;alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy.&rdquo; She added, &ldquo;It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2195413\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2195413\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Obama adviser: Trump surpasses Nixon after firing BLS chief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":2470271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/larry_summers-scaled-1024x688.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[60532,46964,33130,32171,3634],"class_list":["post-2470270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bls-firing","tag-nixon-comparison","tag-obama-adviser","tag-political-commentary","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/larry_summers-scaled-1024x688.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470274,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470270\/revisions\/2470274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2470271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}