Back in November, I wrote where Trump originally obtained the information for his claims “millions” of illegal votes were cast for Hillary Clinton, supposedly costing Trump the popular vote. Gregg Phillips who claimed to “verify” the numbers has yet to release any information. Now Trump is offering up some other “evidence” of these allegations. The story is so absurd; one has to wonder how Trump could tell it and think he’d get away with it.

The story appeared in the NY Times, and nobody on the Trump team has denied it, presumably because Republican and Democratic members of Congress and Trump staff were all present.

Mr. Trump kicked off the meeting, participants said, by retelling his debunked claim that he would have won the popular vote if not for the three million to five million ballots cast by “illegals.” He followed it up with a Twitter post early Wednesday calling for a major investigation into voter fraud. When one of the Democrats protested, Mr. Trump said he was told a story by “the very famous golfer, Bernhard Langer,” whom he described as a friend, according to three staff members who were in the room for the meeting. The witnesses described the story this way: Mr. Langer, a 59-year-old native of Bavaria, Germany — a winner of the Masters twice and of more than 100 events on major professional golf tours around the world — was standing in line at a polling place near his home in Florida on Election Day, the president explained, when an official informed Mr. Langer he would not be able to vote. Ahead of and behind Mr. Langer were voters who did not look as if they should be allowed to vote, Mr. Trump said, according to the staff members — but they were nonetheless permitted to cast provisional ballots. The president threw out the names of Latin American countries that the voters might have come from. Mr. Langer, whom he described as a supporter, left feeling frustrated, according to a version of events later contradicted by a White House official.

What. The. Hell?

Naturally, reporters tried to follow up with Langer on this story. They got a hold of his daughter who informed the Times that Langer is a citizen of Germany and permanent resident alien in the United States, which means he is not legally allowed to vote. Bernard Langer is no dummy. That he’d show up at some polling station is crazy, and the notion officials would pull him out of the line and say he wasn’t able to vote even crazier.

The President has to stop this. In his interview with David Muir of ABC’s World News Tonight, he rightfully called out the media for giving short shrift to the March for Life. It attracts hundreds of thousands of people and is virtually ignored by the press.

It was great, but the media will spend more time talking about Trump’s tall tales. Trump and his team can complain about the press all they want, but when team Trump hands the media the sword used to cut off their heads, they shouldn’t be surprised when it happens.