People with power using Tabloids

Recently I was watching a video about the sexual allegations in Hollywood and within the video mentioned that Harvey Weinstein  was using tabloids to smear and decrease the credibility of his accusers and journalist. Screenshots of conversations Weinstein had between him an the tabloid writers show that he indeed used his power to make his allegations seem as less important and focus on trying to lower the chances of people believing the accusers and making it harder for other accuser to try to come out against him. Upon looking more into this I found that this is used by many people in power when they're caught in a sex scandal or a political thing and found that Donald Trump himself has used such tactics during his presidential run. What are your thoughts on this and did you know about Weinstein being caught.