Many Donald Trump supporters said Friday that they already knew what he has started to claim on the campaign trail: The media is working together with Hillary Clinton and elite corporate leaders in a game that is rigged to defeat their candidate.

“It ain’t just because Trump says it” that the conspiracy is real, said Curtis Essick, of Greensboro, outside the venue. “Trump’s just the one who’s finally put it all together.”…

Proof of the conspiracy is apparent in the way the media focuses on negative stories about Trump, said a local Greensboro resident who declined to give his name. He said there’s never anything negative about Clinton in the news, but “they’ll run with any improper accusation [about Trump] with no merit, blowing it out of proportion,” he said.

While the news media is picking apart Trump, the man said, “the world is going to hell in a handbasket.”