Despite the fact that New York City's district attorney Alvin Bragg was relying on untested legal theories, and despite the fact that the trial itself resembled a tag team effort between the prosecutor and Judge Juan Merchan—a partisan Democrat—the NYT solemnly assured its readers that everything was fair and honorable:

"In a humble courtroom in Lower Manhattan on Thursday, a former president and current Republican standard-bearer was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The jury's decision, and the facts presented at the trial, offer yet another reminder — perhaps the starkest to date — of the many reasons Donald Trump is unfit for office."

The guilty verdict in the former president's hush-money case was reached by a unanimous jury of 12 randomly selected New Yorkers, who found that Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, was guilty of falsifying business records to prevent voters from learning about a sexual encounter that he believed would have been politically damaging.

On June 21, 2024, the NYT ran an article claiming that the videos of a seemingly confused Joe Biden were nothing more than "cheapfakes" that were "misleading" the public. Seven days later, after assuring the public that Biden was fit for office, that same newspaper ran an editorial calling for Biden to drop out of the presidential race following his disastrous debate with the newly-convicted Donald Trump.

The NYT got its way with Biden, as the Democrats dutifully nominated Vice-President Kamala Harris, another favorite of the Grey Lady's editorial board. Its columnists and reporters were all hands on deck to promote her candidacy. David French wrote that he was voting for Harris to "save conservatism from itself."

This is a newspaper used to having its way. From the bogus Russiagate investigation to the numerous attempts by Democratic prosecutors contriving criminal charges against Trump, the NYT was eager to promote the latest conspiracy theories. Despite the fact that the original Steel dossier that gave much of the fire to the so-called investigation was made up of whole cloth, the NYT then declared that the whole affair was legitimate, anyway.