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The Media Treated Trump's Tesla Stunt Like a Car Show, Not Corruption

The Media Treated Trump's Tesla Stunt Like a Car Show, Not Corruption

How media coverage normalized a blatant act of presidential cronyism.

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If you somehow managed to miss it, Donald Trump turned the White House South Lawn into a Tesla showroom yesterday, complete with the president test-sitting vehicles and picking out a shiny Model S that he claimed he'd buy with a personal check.

The whole spectacle was exactly what you'd expect when a billionaire president with a long history of self-prom…

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