They treated Trump as a real candidate back in 2016, artifically elevating him, all because Hillary thought it was an easy win.. CNN is absolutely complacent
They chase ratings, not the bidding of political campaigns. They also reported on all of Hillary's legal problems often ignoring the FBI decided not to prosecute her after millions in tax prayer money investigating her. And as many have pointed out, the FBI doesn't want to let people go free after it spends years and millions of dollars investigating them.