His lie penchant for latching on an extreme small percentage of whatever and turn it into historical massive numbers is his whole shtick. It's how he lied his way into the presidency. The media was reliably paid off in a successful plan of disinformation that the dems did not counter at all.
I think a good percentage of fault is on our side of the government for not seeing this and reacting accordingly. Now they're all sitting around touting the midterms and STILL not being being proactive and publicizing shitfaces lies and crimes.
Although there is some growth in liberal, progressive media groups and networks in the internet that is beating rogan and other nazi groups in ratings lately.