Mick Mulvaney, who's the new Director of the Office of Management and Budget is now claiming — with of course, no evidence — that Barack Obama's administration manipulated the numbers to make the unemployment rate look lower than it actually is. This is how Trump's going to claim he fixed things: He'll probably make it go up but he'll claim it was even higher under Obama and that only The Great Trump could bring those numbers down to his (actually) higher number.
Here's Kevin Drum to refute one thing Mulvaney said via a simple math lesson.