TMZ Goes MAGA: How Harvey Levin’s Gossip Empire Became Trump’s Best Friend

The following article by Lachlan Cartwright was posted on the Daily Beast website May 28, 2018:

The president and the king of gossip have a relationship that’s paid off for them both. Never more so than when Trump almost lost the election.

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When the Access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump emerged in the home stretch of the 2016 election, it should have been a gift from the tabloid gods for TMZ.

Instead, the celebrity gossip website went into overdrive to help Trump.

Within a week of the tape’s explosion, TMZ ran “exclusive” after “exclusive” giving Trump cover. There was a story that Bill Clinton made “disparaging remarks” about women when he played golf with Trump—as Trump claimed Clinton did when the tape dropped. Continue reading “TMZ Goes MAGA: How Harvey Levin’s Gossip Empire Became Trump’s Best Friend”