repeatedly on tabloid covers had left him firmly in the all-publicity-is-good-publicity school. He once said in front of his adviser Brad Parscale, “There’s no bad press unless you’re a pedophile.” And it was a mutual dependence. In the 2016 campaign, he had dominated the news in a way that no other untested, unelected candidate ever had, trailed by cameras everywhere he went from the minute he descended that golden escalator at Trump Tower to greet a bought-and-paid-for crowd of sign-wavers earning $50 each. His rallies were aired live from start to finish on cable networks that found the
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