[quote=@Vilageidiotx]Nope. He didn't use as much money during the campaign because CNN covered that for him by just repeating all his speeches and campaign promises over and over and over again. But he needed to be rich to have the access that he had, to spend so much time building his political brand and campaigning without real hurt to himself, and of course to have ever been enough of a public figure to make waves in the first place. If next campaign season you or I managed to pull off the same thing, well, [i]that[/i] would be proof you don't need money. At this point though, the wealthiest candidate won. [/quote]

I'm betting that you're not arguing CNN was an arm of the [i]Trump[/i] campaign. Think of every second of CNN's Trump coverage as a poorly-invested thousand dollar bill from the Clintons.