content: "We thought he was the easiest candidate to beat early on, so we gave him traction. That blew up in our faces and now we regret it."  It wasn't just them thinking it, the Clinton campaign actively worked in collusion with media not only to get Trump to win the primaries, but they are the ones who got him to run in the first place. They even put their plans in writing and you can read the memo: https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/796222841612042240