Trumps biggest enemy was not the press........but his mouth and his Twitter account
The press was Trump's best friend in the primary, where he could insult other candidates, and entire races and religions with impunity .... even cheers for insulting. Not so much since then. He had to pivot, but instead spent a week insulting the Khans. And then Hillary baited him into fat shaming a latina/Hispanic .. who wasn't fat!
A indictment of their complicity if there ever was one.
They got their perfect patsy.
Not complicity. They gave the masses what they wanted. It's just that there are different masses in the primary and general. Although for us mainstreet gopers, who were watching Kasich and even Rubio (too young) go down, it was seeing the trainwreck setting up, and now it's just ..... an epic disaster.
The media is biased of course, but their first master is mammon, and they give advertisers what viewers want to see.