Trump’s jobs tweet: Much ado about nothing

Published June 7, 2018 4:00am ET



The problem with the 24-hour news cycle is that, with all those minutes to fill, the media too often feels compelled to make something of nothing. And so it is with President Trump’s tweet that he was “looking forward to” the release of the jobs report an hour prior to its official announcement.

Based on the echo chamber’s reaction, you would think Trump was caught making personal calls to Wall Street friends to give them insider information. Obama officials even went so far as to allege Trump had broken the law in a way that would have never occurred under their former boss. Far from it.

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