That's the biggest takeaway from Trump's first four years.
Have to turn the idea around in your head a few times that the WAPO ran a fake story on a call Trump made and that fake story was used against him in an impeachment trial.
Not that that's a one off occurrence, rather that the WAPO 'fessed up and the source burned. No speculation involved. It's true. The news cycle for the last 50 years has been IC telling the MSM what to print/publish/report, then forcing public actions on the false stories.
Before Trump's 2nd term the IC/MSM feedback loop has to be rooted out and shut down. If Trump has transitioned normally in term 2 it would have been a repeat of term 1.