By, Anshel Pfeffer
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Despite the emergence on Friday of a tape in which Donald Trump boasts about his ability to sexually assault women at will, a key Republican donor, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, is standing by the presidential candidate.
No official comment has come from Mr Adelson's office but, on Sunday, the billionaire's Israeli freesheet, Yisrael Hayom - a supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - attempted to put a pro-Trump slant on the affair.
The daily's front-page headline was "Trump apologises, the US is in uproar" and much of the coverage was devoted to new Wikileaks revelations about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and decades-old allegations of sexual impropriety against her husband, former president Bill Clinton. The paper described the latest furore surrounding Mr Trump as "a lot of hypocrisy".
Earlier this year, during the primaries season, the coverage was much more friendly to other Republican candidates, particularly Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who were both initially favoured over Mr Trump by the Adelsons. And, despite Mr Adelson's continuing support of the Trump campaign, he has been much more reluctant to donate to it directly, as in previous elections.
