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Sun Jan 16, 2022, 01:49 PM Jan 2022

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

A memo written by a Census Bureau official complained of meddlesome interference in what's supposed to be an independent process.

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.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-census-meddling-gop-gain-memo-brennan-center_n_61e37ab6e4b0d8b6656c2792
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Trump Administration Exerted 'Unprecedented' Census Engagement In Bid For Political Gain: Memo (Original Post) 634-5789 Jan 2022 OP
We Knew This Was Happening When It Was Happening..... global1 Jan 2022 #1
I have seen many census forms over my 73 years. They had I think one question doc03 Jan 2022 #2

global1

(25,263 posts)
1. We Knew This Was Happening When It Was Happening.....
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 02:20 PM
Jan 2022

Why weren't the Dems more vocal when the census was being undermined by TFG?

The damage that TFG has done to this country is just so devastating.

We will be suffering the results of this census well into the next census that will be taken.

doc03

(35,361 posts)
2. I have seen many census forms over my 73 years. They had I think one question
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 04:17 PM
Jan 2022

they asked what my country of origin was. I thought is that for immigrants or for everyone. I gave them my Ancestry.com
breakdown England, NW Europe, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Baltic countries, Finland, Benin and Togo. I am sure some of them are on their hate list. I thought that was a strange question like something Nazis would have asked in the 1930s.

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