1: I think the truth is somewhere between the claims of the Clinton campaign and that of defensive journalists.https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/772500994429247489 …
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7. On other hand, on issues of Trump's pay to play/access/potential governance style, there seems to be much less attention/evenhandedness
8. Best example, as @JuddLegum pointed out,is failure of most media to cover Trump giving money to AGs to squelch Trump U investigations
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9. I blogged here (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=86182 ) on
@Fahrenthold story on Trump donation to FL AG Bondihttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/01/trump-pays-irs-a-penalty-for-his-foundation-violating-rules-with-gift-to-florida-attorney-general/?postshare=9471472847883822&tid=ss_tw-bottom … -
10. It is an excellent story that hasn't gotten much pickup. And as I say the real story is what's legal, not illegal.
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11. Story shows that Trump engaged in pay-to-play to try to avoid civil (and maybe eventually criminal) investigations of fraud by Trump U
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12. And Trump has admitted that the reason he gave $ to politicians (when he was still supposedly self-funding) was to buy influence/access
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13. So on the transactional nature of politics Trump seems much worse than Clinton, and there's much more digging on this for journalists
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14. Yet journalists don't cover the Trump influence access story nearly as much for a number of reasons:
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15. (a) There's so much else about Trump to cover because he's outrageous and every speech sets a new fire
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16. (b) There are rich stories from Trump's past, like his history of racial discrimination in housing
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17. (c) Because Trump is so outrageous, the media seems less interested in the access/governing story which is so important
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18. (d) Thanks to FOIA disclosures, there's always a new news peg for Clinton access stories but not for Trump, which requires digging
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19. (e) Clinton campaign and HRC have longstanding antagonistic relationship with press, which just encourages aggressiveness on both sides
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20. Clinton would actually help herself by doing regular press conferences and availabilities, which would lower temperature w/journalists
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21. But watching Clinton campaign/allies tangling w/ ournalists like
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22. And in the end Clinton gets more disproportionate stories on sale of access /influence when Trump seems to be much bigger offender.~FIN~
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except that the story isn't new (aside from the fine)- better coverage comp would be circa early June when it broke
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and maybe it's just as lopsided, I don't know. But CGI mentions clearly spiked 9/1-4 thanks the FBI/email revelations.
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thought just the period after we know it was deemed illegal would be fairest
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that was my broader pointhttps://twitter.com/lpdonovan/status/772535841923145728 …
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Weiner story got top billing ("Weiner creates cloud over Clinton campaign") while Trump hasn't been asked about Ailes.
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