there is no difference between the news and hollywood "entertainment", politics is a blend of the two
Don't get the allure of a canned hunt like this, but the author's trying to equate this with Speck or Dahmer is a bit of a ridiculous reach. Perhaps they don't get that when you make statements like this in a political hit piece, it is much less persuasive, though it sounds like the interested parties made up their minds long ago