They didn’t “shield” him…. they lied to the country to keep their grip on power. Now that the damage is done, they want a participation trophy for whispering it anonymously to Politico. Pathetic. Every single last one of these aides and media figures would have praised a week-old crockpot of beef stroganoff as “the best POTUS ever” if it was the Democrat nominee.💩💩💩