Chris Christie trashed President Donald Trump for firing Dr. Erika McEntarfer — former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) — after a subpar jobs report.

During a roundtable segment on ABC’s This Week Sunday, the former New Jersey governor ripped Trump for shooting the messenger.

“This is … something that I’ve been talking about since 2018,” Christie said. “When he gets news he doesn’t like, he needs someone to blame because he won’t take the responsibility himself. And this is the action of a petulant child! Like, you give me bad news, I fire the messenger.”

Christie argued the data is viewed by too many people for anyone to alter it.

“It seems to me, from everything I learned over my eight years as governor, that it would be almost impossible for anyone to try to rig these numbers because so many people are involved in putting them together,” Christie said. “And in the end, when it comes to the Director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the woman who was fired, when that happens, all she’s doing is being a conduit of the information.She can’t go back in … and start line-iteming it around. So, it’s irresponsible from a position of facts, but it also shows you the way he manages.”

Earlier in the segment, Christie also took a shot at Trump over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein probe and argued the subject “won’t go away” — arguing that recent references in pop culture, such as at the ESPY awards, show that the story has broken through to mainstream pop culture.

“You know, when that kind of stuff is going on, it’s now left — as you know — when it leaves the White House briefing room and goes into popular culture, the White House briefing room can’t control it,” Christie said.

Watch above, via ABC.

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