And of course anyone who tells the truth will be attacked by the MSM.
Early on, it was lawyers that were used. I think it likely that government power has been used to find, sequester, and likely destroy those records. And, I would expect that many in the administrations at Occidental and Columbia would sympathize and cooperate.
The modern “Fact Checking” phenomenon is largely the efforts of journalism’s efforts to rejuvenate its flagging credibility through unscrupulous rebranding.