Jan 9 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump posted a chart on his social media account late Thursday that included job-market data that was not publicly released until Friday morning.
The chart, which has been liked nearly 14,000 times by other Truth Social users, showed the economy added 654,000 private-sector jobs since January, and had 181,000 fewer government jobs, figures that were only published by the Labor Department on Friday in its closely-watched December jobs report. The president typically gets the jobs report a day early. Bloomberg News reported the apparent breach earlier.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump’s posted chart cited the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics and calculations by the Council of Economic Advisers as its sources.
(Reporting by Ann Saphir, Andrea Shalal, Editing by Franklin Paul, Rod Nickel)
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