In an otherwise unrelated Jan. 24 news story about President Donald Trump signing executive orders to get some major oil pipelines (purposely stalled by Barack Obama in his ongoing effort to cripple America's energy industry and thus drive up our electric bills) back on track, The Associated Press couldn't help themselves, adding:

"Yet even as Trump moves to implement his agenda, he is still making false claims."

(Note this was in a supposedly "straight news" story — not identified as an opinion piece — credited to The AP's Darlene Superville, Ken Thomas, Erica Werner, Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin. And the same assertion was repeated in other AP stories filed from Washington the same day.)

"During a reception with lawmakers at the White House Monday evening, Trump claimed the reason he'd lost the popular vote to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton was that 3 million to 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally had voted," The AP writers reported.