President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, hours after the agency released a weaker-than-expected jobs report. Trump wrote on social media that the numbers were ”RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” Trump presented no evidence suggesting the numbers were rigged.

Trump’s firing of Erika McEntarfer was widely criticized. Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers spoke to ABC on Sunday.

Lawrence Summers: “This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers. It goes with launching assaults on universities. It goes with launching assaults on law firms.”