According to the OP he said Trump would be easier to remove than Clinton. The fact that Trump was not removed from office does not make the statement wrong.
I don’t think they automatically sprung to his defense though.
It seems to me that the Republican establishment didn’t support Trump but that he was able to rally his base in order force their support begrudgingly.
I believe the term that Trump’s base used for those Republicans was RINO, Republicans In Name Only. So the fact that this vocabulary existed among Trump’s base to me indicates that their support for Trump was not automatic.
