From observing the NYT a long time, I’d say they do this crap to plenty of Democrats. They hyped a phony land scandal involving Bill Clinton (Whitewater), which led to years of investigation that turned up nothing. They had a totally fake uranium scandal involving Hillary Clinton which was employed against her for a very long time, not to mention they’re overhyping how she used her email server as Secretary of State, which arguably due to Comey’s late announcement in the 2016 campaign, tanked her candidacy.

They have never pushed similarly on folks like Susan Collins and of course neither has the Bangor Daily News or Portland Press Herald.