The Lid: “On one side, Clinton is being forced to respond to a Wall Street Journal story that alleges that the Clinton Foundation helped ‘friends’ secure a financial commitment for their for-profit company. On the other side, Donald Trump has in the past 24 hours disavowed the racist comments of his former butler, insisted that he never posed as his own spokesman despite previously copping to doing so, and told a network news anchor that it’s ‘none of your business’ what he pays in taxes.”
“Each of these are stories that, in a previous election cycle, would have taken up weeks of news cycles. But the rhythm is vastly different for the two camps. Clinton is getting the kind of traditional coverage that most general election candidates would get , while Trump’s is unlike anything we’ve ever seen with a nominee before. That’s because he zooms from outrageous story to outrageous story so fast that his latest controversy always consumes, normalizes and erases the previous one.”
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