Dale C -- it was Bernie Sanders who was the one by far the most responsible for that, as he is the one who spearheaded that false narrative as a major part of his thoroughly unprincipled attempts to bury Clinton in bullshit -- a false narrative Trump gleefully and gratefully took and ran with
and even now Bernie continues to tear down the Democratic Party and give aid and comfort and lend legitimacy to Trump with his continuing bullshit rants along that line