Trump has the media "over-the-barrel" as is his M. O.
This hit me when I read the excellent article below. Yes I'm posting it again.
Ratings and the "horse race" are often cited as the excuse for the tremendous amount of free advertising and factcheck free coverage the media has given him. Those are the end result, what lead to their current situation is the same scam Trump has pulled throughout his life.
He's done this to banks and the Republican Party. The writers in the piece below (p. 1 at link) describe how Trump and his finance guy, faced with the possible foreclosure on his yacht, realized that the banks didn't want to repossess his things. The banks were so coupled with Trump they couldn't afford to lose HIM. Look back to March of this year. Trump pulls out of a Republican debate and the RNC cancels the debate. They HAD TO HAVE HIM. Their credibility, media and the banks, was at stake because he had pulled them so close to him.
It's the same thing now in the general election. He is the show. Hell, he's almost all WE talk about here. If you don't cover Trump you lose. Everyone literally has a couple of "Trump check"'s during the day. What did he do now??? (There is a parallel to "The Truman Show" as well) If you are a media outlet and you don't have some Trump news people will go to another outlet.
If you haven't read the piece below please do. This excerpt explains how his lenders came to understand what they'd gotten themselves into but it was too late.
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Blair: The New Jersey Generals, which gets him onto the sports pages, which gets him up to a national level. So the branding he had in place, so by the time the first bankruptcy comes up, the brand is the thing they don’t want to let go of. They don’t want to foreclose and not have the name, which is so counterintuitive that the mind boggles. Like, wait a minute. This guy is in corporate bankruptcy, but his name—but that’s how it was. He could get the over-the-barrel piece for the banks, and he’s been doing it ever since. It’s the over-the-barrel piece which he did with the Republican Party now. How do you get them so they can’t get rid of you, they can’t let you go? And he’s really good at that.
Barrett: Well, the thing was that the banks wouldn’t complain, either. When they cut the deal with him, if they didn’t go on to a prosecutor—I mean, all of the financials that he gave the banks were totally false.
Hurt: And they’re liable for that, for not doing their due diligence.
Barrett: Yes. They were so embarrassed that they never went to a prosecutor. Clearly, there could have been a case made.
D’Antonio: But isn’t this sort of consistent with the way the game of politics was played by his father and the politicians and the clubhouse people? It’s like, if I bring you into my web of deception, now you’re a part of it. Now, where do you go for redress? You have no options. You have to stay with me and see it through to the end, because I’ve got you as a partner. You’re now colluding with me.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-2016-campaign-biography-psychology-history-barrett-hurt-dantiono-blair-obrien-213835#ixzz4Kl2kEque
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