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At the risk of stating the obvious, these facts are textbook examples of the sort of political and prosecutorial corruption journalists are supposed to uncover. Trump used money to buy protection from the consequences of his bad acts from friendly politicians. He then tried to cover up his payment of protection money. And on top of all that he made the either bizarre or incompetent mistake of paying the protection money out of his Foundation - the money from which mostly comes from other people beside Trump.

This is an actual, real, meaningful scandal with two – two! – smoking guns. This is exactly the sort of thing that the New York Times, CNN, and all the biggest names in journalism are looking for as they relentlessly go after the Clinton Foundation, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton. There is nothing to be uncovered there, because there is no “there” there. The FBI pretty much exonerated the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation of exactly the kind of influence peddling and pay-for-play corruption that Trump is clearly guilty of doing … and there is almost complete and utter silence about Trump’s two successful efforts to buy off politicians – and not just politicians, but the Attorneys General of two different states!

The story the media wants to write about the Clintons exists, but they won’t write it, because it’s about Trump. 

(via wilwheaton)