>The people who write these articles just can't accept the idea that people didn't vote for Trump unless they were tricked into it, or were fed lies.

I agree with what you're trying to say, but you are being overly broad.

Talk to Trump supporters prior to the election, and with the exception of "anti-establishment", most of them will give reasons that they were tricked into believing.

Go to fact checking web sites and look at all the statements Trump continually repeated that were demonstrably false, and see how many of them the supporters believed (hint: many of them).

So yes, they were fed lies and believed them.

However, you are correct in that it was not the only reason why they voted for him. They believed those lies as post-hoc justification for their picking him. Really no different from people who pick any candidate, including Hilary.