You are ignoring critical factors.
Once Donald Trump secures the GOP nomination, it will be a whole new ballgame. The media (except Trump’s pom pom cheerleaders on Faux News) are going turn on him and unleash even more sordid and tawdry news on him. The media will cover up and protect the Clintons like they always do. The media has being withholding fire right now because the WANT Trump to WIN the GOP nomination. But they will be solidly behind the Democrats in the general election as they always are.
Trump could get away with sliming his fellow Republicans, belittling them and insulting them with his silly little nicknames, and snide comments and gratuitous insults. But none of this will work against the Dems in the Fall election.
Trump really is an instinctive conservative, just now getting actually focused on the ideological aspect of politics.