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Trump: August jobs numbers 'disaster'

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Former United States President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump deemed the Bureau of Labor Statistics nonfarm payrolls numbers for August a "disaster."

"You had numbers that are shocking. Native-born Americans, we lost 1.3 Million jobs, while foreign-born Americans were able to take all of those jobs. So, foreign is coming in, largely illegally — took the jobs of native-born Americans," Trump pointed out on Friday during a presser at Trump Tower.

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