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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Autopen Bombshell was VP Harris actually POTUS plus Falsified Economic Data means Inherited a “Massive Mess"
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We're public rec and we make clothes that are lightweight, breathable, that look good and feel great even for summer golf. With our new Medina series. Shop now@publicwreck.com radio public rec. My signature. And it's not the way I speak. And anybody that's covered me for a long time know that's not my language. It's nonsense. And frankly, you're wasting your time. All you do is trying to get off the great success DC and about 200 other things we've done that are so successful. You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Good Wednesday morning. It's so nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update. And we've got two major stories for you. Bombshell. Documents are now blowing wide open the Biden auto pin scandal, and it's now putting a spotlight on who may have been running the country in the last year. It wasn't the president. It could have been the vice president, Kamala Harris. How do we know this? Because the White House lawyers were talking about it in emails that we now have. I'll give you all those shocking details in just a moment. Also, we're finding out just how bad the economy actually was under Joe Biden. And the people in charge of the statistics on job numbers, well, they were lying in a partisan way that we never have seen before, creating out of thin air literally millions of jobs that they knew were never filled. But before we get to those stories, I want to take a moment and I want to talk to you real quick about what you can do to help the people in Israel. It was nearly two years ago that the terrorists murdered more than 1200 innocent Israelis and they took 250 hostages. Today, it seems as if the cries of the dead and dying have been drowned out by the shouts of anti Semitism and just pure hatred, not just in America, but around the world. And the most brutal attack on Jewish people happened. It happened since the Holocaust. And now it's like they're trying to act like it never happened. Now, this is where it is important for us to stand with the people in Israel. It's a movement of love and support for the people of Israel. And this is where I want you to get involved. It is called Flags of Fellowship. It's being organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. And on October 5th, you can stand with Israel and the victims proudly, just a few weeks away. Millions across America will prayerfully plant an Israeli flag in honor and solidarity with the victims of October 7, the 2023, and stand with their grieving families. You can be a part of this movement as well. And that's what I love about what IFCJ does. They're making sure that the world knows there are there are lots of people of faith in this country and friends and advocates for Israel. They're going to stand with them. You can get more information about how you can join the Flags of Fellowship movement, including your church. There are going to be countless churches around the country. They're going to plant flags as well. So all you have to do to get involved with Flags of Fellowship Movement is go to ifcj.org that's ifcj.org stand with Israel on October 5th. It's just a few weeks away and if your church you think would want to be involved, you can also find out more about how to get your church to be involved on a special Sunday@ifcj.org that's ifcj.org it's the 47 morning update and it starts right now. New documents are blowing open the Biden auto pin scandal and now putting a serious spotlight on Kamala Harris. There are newly uncovered internal documents that are shedding light on what was going on at the White House on former President Joe Biden's use of the auto pen and alleged outsourcing, quote unquote of decision making during his final year in office. The former President has insist that he personally made all decisions regarding the pardons, executive orders and calling claims the contrary, quote, ridiculous and false. But the memos tell a different story. The internal memos and emails indicate that critical decisions, including clemencies, were quietly delegated to others, others who were not elected officials, others who were not the President of the United States of America. Now one of the others includes former Vice President Kamala Harris and it rem unclear whether Biden formally approved certain decisions. Multiple outlets are now confirming this. Biden aids initially insisted that he personally signed by hand any official presidential actions, but by the end of his term the standard had been abandoned, according to an internal memo obtained by Just the News, based on precedent from the Obama Biden administration regarding which documents generally are hand signed by the President. Our recommendation is that as a general rule, you quote, unquote personally approve and hand sign all decisions that require presidential actions. That is what it says on a February 2021 draft memo distributed to top White House officials. Now, By February of 2024, authorization for clemency actions increasingly relied on the Vice President's approval, not the actual President of the United States of America. That according to a draft memo circulated by the White House Counsel's office. Yes, that would be the White House's lawyers, quote. Given the President's schedule, it can often take days or weeks for the President to review and approve the clemency package, the lawyer's memo read. The chief of Staff's office has been helpful in getting the paper in front of him for his review. He previously asked the White House counsel to discuss the candidates with him, although in the last round the vice presidential approval was sufficient to obtain his approval, the lawyers noted. So again in writing, the lawyers at Biden's White House were saying, he's not running the show. It's the vice president and others. Now, the Trump White House concluded that this memo shows the former president was effectively outsourcing clemency decision to Harris during his final year. And by the way, to put it in perspective, during his four years in the White House, Biden granted an unprecedented 4,245 acts of clemency, more than any previous president on record. All of Biden's pardons from December to January, including those of his family members, as well as Dr. Anthony Fauci and General Mark Milley, were reportedly signed not by the president, but signed by Auto Pen. In fact, there was only one preemptive pardon, one pardon that was signed by the president, and that was for his son, Hunter Biden. Internal emails cast even further doubt on whether Biden approved the commutations of more than 2,500 inmates jailed for crack cocaine offenses in January. The New York Post is now reporting. So what do we have more evidence that the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, was not calling the shots and was not actually even deciding who was getting pardons or clemency? Which brings up the bigger question. Are these pardons and clemency actually legal? Now, that is a question this administration is obviously looking into. Now, story number two. I want you to listen very carefully to the numbers I'm about to give you, and I want you to understand just how big the lies were. To act like the economy actually wasn't in terrible shape. When Democrats were in charge and they were running for reelection, they just made up hundreds of thousands of jobs. We just got these new numbers in that there was almost a million 911,000 fewer jobs were created between April of 2024 and March of 2025. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is saying that isn't just a revision. That is a revision that is on a level that clearly is straight up fraud. You don't get these numbers this wrong. Look at polling. When they have a margin of error, a plus or minus 3%, or if it's a bad poll, 4%. If it's a horrific 5%, you're telling me the federal government sucks so bad at counting jobs, Same people, by the way, they're supposed to be collecting taxes on these jobs, that they got it wrong by 911,000 jobs? The answer is obviously no. What does this mean? It means the labor market was weak, extremely weak, well before the tariffs kicked in. The job market was frozen in 2024 as well. In fact, the average Job gains Revision showed just 140,000 jobs per month. That is an average job gain after revisions of 71,000amonth. Now, this annual, quote, revision process is normal. What's not normal is how big they're missing these numbers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does it every year, and they apparently just lie when Democrats are in office. I'll give you an example. Last August, right in the heat of the election, the Bureau of Labor statistics reported negative 818,000 fewer jobs. Yes, these were large, massive corruption revisions is how I describe it. Why did this happen? It happened because they wanted to say the economy isn't as bad as it really was when Joe Biden was running for re election. So the takeaway, and this is what I want you to really understand, number one, Donald Trump clearly inherited a massive mess. It is a absolute scandal of gigantic proportions that our government was lying to the American people, trying to make you feel like things are better than they actually are. Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, said it this way. Quote, today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the largest downward revision on record in history. I'm going to say that again. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the largest downward revision on record ever. Why did this happen? Because they wanted Joe Biden to win. Caroline Levitt said it provides more understanding on why President Donald Trump took action to address concerns about reporting accuracy at the bureau, with Levitt saying it proves that President Trump was right. Biden's economy was a disaster, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics is straight up broken. The White House added, this is exactly why we need new leadership to restore trust and confidence in the data on behalf of the financial markets, on behalf of businesses, policymakers and families that rely on this data to make major decisions. Now, the White House on August 1st released a list of errors and admissions by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. By the way, this is like their entire job, which is accused of inaccuracies and also now incompetency. And the White House also pointing a finger at Commissioner Erica Mickin Tarver, who was appointed to the role by former President Joe Biden. Among those examples was not only them issuing another massive revision of these jobs. More than 800,000 were overestimated in what was the second largest downward revision for the BOS as well. And so this means two in a row. Okay, Two years in a row, they were lying to you about how bad the numbers were, or they were just making up literally almost 2 million jobs that didn't exist. Now, Donald Trump fired Erica just hours after the release of the July jobs report which showed weaker than expected job growth and significant downward revisions for May and June. That's when the left was like, you can't do this as a nonpartisan. Well, it is partisan. Clearly it was because she created 2 million jobs out of thin air to help Joe Biden and the Democrats. The labor secretary, by the way, posted on Tuesday that the negative drop of numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals a, quote, problem. Saying today's massive downward revision gives the American people even more reason to doubt the integrity of data being published by our government. It's imperative for the data to remain accurate, impartial and never altered for political gain. Now, within two weeks of firing the individual who's overseeing these this insanity, Trump also named Heritage foundation chief economist and Tony to lead the bureau. His nomination is also waiting Senate confirmation, something that I think clearly should be done as soon as possible. Which brings me to Stephen Moore. He's former Trump campaign senior economic adviser. You may know him from Fox News and Fox Business. I want you to hear what he had to say about the far fewer jobs added than expected in August and also what he says about the job report revisions in general. The week optimistic we're going to see a rate cut next week. After we got the key jobs report for August, the first one since President Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last month, there were questions over the accuracy of the data. The report showing much fewer jobs added in August than expected, only 22,000 versus the estimate of 75,000. And the unemployment rate now at its highest level since October of 2021. We also got revisions showing 21,000 fewer jobs created in June and July than previously reported. For more on this and what it means for the Fed's next move, I'm joined by Committee to Unleash Prosperity co founder Steve Moore. Steve, it's great to see you. Talk to me about your thoughts on this jobs report. Pretty big miss on the estimate? Well, it sure was. But you know, it's interesting. I think one of the takeaways from this report is how increasingly unreliable these jobs numbers are. And you know, we talk, you and I and, and Maria talk about this every first Friday of every month and we're seeing these gyrations in the numbers. And also, so one of the things that hasn't been really widely reported is that there's two surveys. One survey had a big increase in jobs by, I think, I don't remember the exact number, close to 300,000. Whereas the one that's reported the headline number was what, 28,000. So we need to clean up these numbers, Cheryl, because we make so many economic decisions based on these jobs numbers. And I've been doing this for 35 years that I think look at the re estimates, they keep changing the numbers every month. I would ask you something, by the way. You listen to what Steve Moore says he's saying and it's true. So many people make business decisions off of this data and information, by the way. That's why this data is supposed to be done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's supposed to be non biased in the way that it is done. And we have a very clear problem here where there has been a massive politicization of these numbers to try to help out Democrats when they're running for office. They created 2 million jobs that they knew weren't there just so the economy would look like it's better than it actually is now. Also, I think the American people understood how bad it was and, and so they like, that's why they voted for Donald Trump. But it had to be really bad for them to see it. And so this is again one of the examples of the massive lies of the left. And it's something that absolute should. Okay. It's something that should never, ever, ever, ever happen, period. Full stop. This is why Trump is going after this. This is why there needs to be reform. It is truly insane. Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this podcast right now and for more in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast and we will see you back here tomorrow. This is for guys who like being guys. 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