It was like that with Nixon too. The media coverage was single sided and his opposition got all the favorable press. Frank Church, Sam Ervin, Scoop Jackson, the special prosecutor Jaworski were lionized. Woodward and Bernstein were deified.
but by this time, people were resigning...flipping, pleading guilty etc....in Trumps case, they are literally making stories up and they know that the story is a lie. Hope hes tough as nails.