As would be expected, the Republican presidential nominee is intimately familiar with how much of a boon his erratic and frequently controversial campaign has been for TV news. According to Advertising Age, CNN charged 40 times its normal fee for spots that were to air during its broadcast of the second GOP candidate forum.

Now we have even more evidence as to why the media never got around to doing its fucking job and vetting him more closely in the primary.

Trump reacted to the news by calling on CNN to donate all of its ad revenues from the event to charities for American veterans.

“You should view the second debate broadcast as a public service and not accept the massive profits that this airing will generate,” he wrote in a letter to the network’s president, Jeff Zucker.

David Fahrenthold is ROTFL as I type this…