Good point. Unfortunately, most citizens will believe their crap explanation - “we did it to protect Trump.”
There was a time when an argument between two people could be ended with a phrase like, " I read it in the newspaper this morning... I've got the paper around here somewhere..."
That would never happen today. Yes, the press will put out anything democrats tell them to put out, but citizens don't find believable 'their crap explanation' the way they did in the past.