Our job is to elevate the facts that matter regardless of who they benefit. But to people like these Trump supporters, we’re out to hurt Trump and help the Democrats. Because of that perception the president gets a free pass from his fans. He could in theory (or fact) screw up 90 percent of the time and they wouldn’t blame him. They’d blame us. They’d say we were shading reality, not reflecting it. Then they’d loathe us even more. And the cycle would continue. In that way, the worse the president performed, the more we’d be hated by covering it, and the more he’d be forgiven his failures.
