‘Gaming them again’? Trump tweets one sentence before booming jobs report–sends media into frenzy

It doesn’t take much to get the rapid, anti-Trump media going these days, it could be something as simple as a short tweet anticipating the release of job numbers.

Which is precisely what happened Friday, with CNN leading the charge, reporting it was a “quite strange thing to see President Trump tweeting that he’s looking forward to seeing the employment numbers.”

“Looking forward to seeing the employment numbers at 8:30 this morning,” Trump said in the early morning tweet.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1002510522032541701

No data was released in the tweet, no mention of numbers, just anticipation. And with that, the media was off and running.

Forget about trumped up charges of Russian collusion and obstruction of justice, news agencies declared President Trump had potentially violated federal guidelines barring government officials from commenting on sensitive economic data before its release.

From NBC News reporter Peter Alexander:

And Bloomberg’s Lisa Abranowicz.

Don’t count out CNN political commentator Keith Boykin:

“[T]hey found the leaker,” tweeted MSNBC chief legal correspondent Ari Melber.

President Barack Obama’s former economic adviser Austan Goolsbee all but declared that Trump broke the law.

“If the president just tipped that the numbers are good, he broke the law,” he tweeted.

Goolsbee also pointed out the data is classified information — where the heck was Goolsbee during the Hillary Clinton email probe?

And on and on it went. You can expect wall-to-wall coverage on CNN all weekend long on how Trump broke federal guidelines.

As for the numbers, 223,000 jobs were added in May and unemployment dropped to 3.8 percent, according to the jobs report. That’s an increase over the number of jobs predicted and the left and their media allies must distract from all the damn good news.

Tony Fratto, a CNBC contributor who was an Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Treasury and served as White House deputy press secretary under President George W. Bush, had a different take on Trump’s tweet.

“I’m not aware of any statute that would prevent a POTUS from announcing the jobs #s himself if he wanted to,” Fratto tweeted. “But it’s obviously pretty bad practice to hint at the number. Market participants rely on consistent, predictable release of our data.”

Fox Business Network’s Charles Payne may have gotten it right when he jumped into the fray to suggest that Trump “is gaming” the mainstream media again.

 

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