That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front weretendentious.
2016 November 23, Karen Tumulty, “Trump backs away from some of his strident campaign promises”, inThe Washington Post[1]:
President-elect Donald Trump abruptly abandoned some of his mosttendentious campaign promises Tuesday, saying he does not plan to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email system or the dealings of her family foundation, has an “open mind” about a climate-change accord from which he vowed to withdraw the United States and is no longer certain that torturing terrorism suspects is a good idea.
2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, inRAIL, number944, page37:
It is a canard trotted out by lazy ortendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.