The government is made of institutions. The press is an institution. The government makes the law, but it doesn't do so in a commonly acknowledged fashion, it does so by prejudicing the result, if the law is weak in an area. This is how new laws are passed, this is how old laws are reinterpreted. Usually the press frames a situation as a moral issue, and either juries would see it as such, or legislators would. Perhaps the average Trump supporter doesn't understand why they support Trump, nor does the average Democrat, but one thing is clear, if the allegations against Trump are true, they would vote out the entire government. There is a certain ridiculousness to it all. The press is publishing leaks on tangentially related items to the Trump investigation, the Trump investigation seems political motivated because they haven't charged anyone with what Republicans would see as valid crimes, but even if it was focused.... Hyperbole like "hack the election", "Alfa bank data laundering", if true, would be incredible. This seems to be a systematic mishandling and inability to actually prosecute competently. If the honest truth was released, people would see it for what it is, not even a circus, but a clownshow.