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What Donald Trump's Access Hollywood weekend says about 2020

By Matt Flegenheimer
New York Times·
15 mins to read
What Donald Trump's Access Hollywood weekend says about 2020
President Trump's capacity for scorched-earth politics has often been most conspicuous in times of campaign distress. Photo / Doug Mills, The New York Times

On a Friday, the world heard vulgar audio of Trump boasting about forcing himself on women. By Sunday night, the episode that was supposed to doom him had begun to recede.

Donald Trump, down and unwilling to get out, saw only one way back up: Go lower.

Two days had

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