Objective!

This is a damning thread but as I said in my Obama book, the media react to cues. When there’s a good jobs report with a D president, Ds say it’s good and Rs say it’s hideous. With an R president, Ds say it’s good and Rs say it’s phenomenal. The media split the difference. https://t.co/OvwBAWlEvR

— Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) August 4, 2023

Fair and balanced! Which observation (about jobs reports as reported by the media) actually feeds into this:

Amazing and on brand. Trump now demands SCOTUS intervene because his campaign is actually a defense fund masquerading as a political campaign. https://t.co/3RCCEDskGE

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 4, 2023

As long as we're talking about Trump and his lawyers making damning admissions, what about this one?

Resources that would have gone into Ads and Rallies, will now have to be spent fighting these Radical Left Thugs in numerous courts throughout the Country.

This from the self-proclaimed billionaire? Who now admits his campaign fund is his legal slush fund? (And does this mean we'll have fewer Trump rallies?  Or at least an excuse for fewer of them, since the last one played to a half-full small arena?  Don't threaten me with a good time.)

Yeah, I'm not gonna hold my breath, because this passes for political punditry:

Are Democrats secretly tricking Republicans into nominating Trump? https://t.co/6IhCrvWQ13

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) August 4, 2023

(And no, Chait's not that stupid:

That this theory is totally deranged hardly requires saying. There is no evidence any, let alone all, of the prosecutors investigating Trump have coordinated with the Biden administration or have any interest in affecting the Republican nomination. Trump’s legal woes are easily and parsimoniously explained by the fact he has habitually flouted the law throughout his career, beginning at least 50 years ago, when he and his father refused to allow Black people to rent apartments, and continuing through decades of assorted schemes and swindles.

And it's really kind of an interesting analysis of anti-anti-Trumpers (his term) trying to stick with their conservative beliefs within the GOP, while rejecting Trump as Not Our Kind.  "Cognitive dissonance" is the nice term for the logical outcome of what they espoused within the GOP practically since Goldwater lost to LBJ.  Chickens coming home to roost, and all that.

Chickens always manage to do that.)