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UCmeNdc

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Sun Jan 16, 2022, 05:49 PM Jan 2022

Anything to win: Trump Administration Exerted 'Unprecedented' Census Engagement

Trump Administration Exerted 'Unprecedented' Census Engagement In Bid For Political Gain: Memo

Former President Donald Trump and his administration demonstrated “unprecedented” engagement in the census process in a brazen bid for Republican political gain, according to a newly released memo written by a frustrated Census Bureau official.

The scathing memo from September 2020 appeared to be written by Census Bureau Deputy Director Ron Jarmin and sent to two other top Bureau officials as Trump was desperately pressing to end the population count weeks early in an attempt to manipulate it in favor of him and the GOP.

The memo listed several instances of meddling by Trump and his officials that the Bureau planned to share with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose department oversees the Bureau. It complained about attempts to breach the privacy of census respondents, the use of estimates to fill in data, pressure to take shortcuts, and attempts to identify undocumented immigrants.

Ultimately, the Trump administration was attempting to hijack an independent system governed by statistical science to serve Trump and the Republican Party, Jarmin suggested.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-census-meddling-gop-gain-memo-brennan-center_n_61e37ab6e4b0d8b6656c2792
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Anything to win: Trump Administration Exerted 'Unprecedented' Census Engagement (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jan 2022 OP
KnR Hekate Jan 2022 #1
One reason I did not volunteer.. Deuxcents Jan 2022 #2

Deuxcents

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2. One reason I did not volunteer..
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 06:54 PM
Jan 2022

His antics n lawsuits just made me sick. I watch PBS and Finding your Roots n it’s amazing how much the Census information is so important and for him to degrade our Constitutional charge for every 10 years is another crime, imo. His intent to destroy our everything we hold dear is his legacy. The worst person ever

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