Hillary didn’t have to retract or defend her desire to render thousands of coal jobs extinct or her inexplicable amnesia regarding a terror attack on 9/11/2012 because there was no pressure from her left, including network media. But that’s who those people are, and covering for their own is to be expected. She will not have to defend these positions or comments unless forced to do so by someone outside of the mainstream network media.

What was unexpected, however, was that the likely GOP nominee let Hillary’s bad week slide in favor of throwing temper tantrums about various journalists and newspapers and his own party.

Donald Trump has addressed exactly none of this. The Road House antics of his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and the WWE circus rallies of his protesters and supporters have effectively sucked up the oxygen. And Trump has done nothing to shift focus onto Hillary herself. In the past two weeks, Donald Trump has attacked the Wall St. Journal editorial board for accurately reporting vote totals, David Brooks for writing his opinion in an opinion column, and Megyn Kelly for talking about him on her prime-time show; he has also lambasted the GOP’s delegate system. Trump has released campaign statements slamming Fox News and defending Lewandowski’s horse-collaring of protesters. He has issued no statements defending the families of those lost in Benghazi or defending working coal miners, voters he’ll desperately need come November.

Trump has made exactly zero statements, either on stage, on social media, or in call-in interviews about any of these substantial gaffes by Hillary Clinton. If the GOP front-runner won’t criticize her for threatening to put a large swathe of voters, likely Trump voters, out of business, then what incentive is there for the Sunday-morning shows to address this? If Donald Trump can’t bring himself to mention or tweet about Clinton’s Libya pothole, why would Meet the Press or CNN?

This is what happens when a presidential candidate gets his information exclusively from “the shows,” as he said on Meet the Press.