Every ranking boost for one result is a ranking decrease for all other results.
A plain text reading of the transcript and a fair viewing of the press conference has the President saying that he was not talking about neo Nazis should be condemned totally, and that there were also very fine people on both sides of the statue debate.
Jake Tapper of CNN has clarified this multiple times on air.
As for agenda, I'm an Indian citizen with no business or personal interests in the USA other than following the news as a hobby and enjoying the reality TV aspect of it.
Googling it gives you essentially fake news. Try it out.
Vote the man out of office but don't destroy your society and potentially others by looking the other way and allowing a company like Google to do this.
In terms of what the blog actually talks about, "Democratic debate" is a terrible example. This seems to focus on boosting older articles that break the news and down rank low effort follow up stories. I don't think a consistent topic like "Democractic debate" is a good test bed.
Maybe search for a scandal?