I just realized that the Donald Delivers thing was in 2005, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAGMIvGYNnI that's when Trump delivered his own blackmail - and that's the same year as the Epstien Sex Slave case breaking https://nypost.com/2016/10/09/the-sex-slave-scandal-that-exposed-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-epstein/
And given what I know know of everything else…. I think it was forcing this scandal that made the bad guys have to turn to Trump as a backup "Perot" for what they assumed would be Jeb!
It's not easy to get Hillary and Al-Waleed to shill for you and Trump did that for YEARS with the apprentice and even named his child "William" which could have been a way to say "I won't betray you"
and just like that he had the media in his pocket…. but as our great POTUS said ‘I’m more a spy than he is!’