To most people, it would seem odd that the Associated Press would release one “fact check” filled with obvious errors, but it would be baffling to see that they would release another with just as many problems a few days later. Now, the AP has released another one, this time to attack President Donald Trump over “collusion.”

1. False Claim: “President Donald Trump denied Tuesday there was any ‘collusion’ between his presidential campaign and Russia, and declared that ‘collusion is not a crime’ anyway. Case closed? Not exactly.”

Fact: Claims about “collusion” have been the rallying cry by Democrats and other opponents of the president. Pointing out that their rallying cry is using a word that has no legal bearing shows that the opponents do not understand the law. The President is absolutely right to do this, and the AP knows that.

2. False Claim: “there are plenty of specific laws on the books that could apply”

Fact: This goes from “fact check” to fantasy. They could have equally said “there are plenty of specific laws on the books if someone were to murder a dozen people and eat their kidneys.” A “fact check” is to deal with the background and credibility of statements, not add random speculation about thing”

3. False Claim: “Mueller has already accused Trump’s former campaign chairman and another top aide of working as foreign agents for Ukrainian interests and funneling millions of dollars from the work into offshore accounts used to fund lavish lifestyles.”

Fact: In a piece that supposedly takes the President to task for misleading comments, not revealing that these accusations are from a significant period of time before that “former campaign chairman” (Paul Manafort) ever worked for the President is completely dishonest and unbecoming of a journalist.

By hiding this key information, the AP attempts to associated the President with an activity that would have been impossible for him to be associated with otherwise. Professionally, we call that “defamation,” which is against the law.

4. False Claim: “The investigation also has exposed Moscow’s aggressive outreach to the Trump campaign, including a promise of ‘dirt’ on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in a meeting attended by Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.”

Fact: All evidence shows that the meeting did not provide any “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. Not including that evidence is the only way for the AP to make the meeting appear to be an “aggressive outreach.” Instead, it was a bait and switch used to waste the time of the Trump campaign and not provide any help. Their example of evidence is actual proof that Russia did not try to directly help the President.

5. False Claim: “If Trump or his aides knew in advance that Russia had the trove of stolen emails and did nothing to alert federal authorities, they could be accused of covering up the crime of stolen emails or working as foreign agents.”

Fact: You do not have an obligation to report a crime. That is not “covering up the crime.” Making a false accusation of criminality is defamation and libel though, which is a great breach of professional journalistic standards.

6. False Claim: “a conspiracy to defraud the United States can be used to refer to any two people using ‘deceit, craft, or trickery’ to interfere with governmental functions, such as an election.”

Fact: Although the “conspiracy to defraud” idea has been passed around, the actual use in courts has never had the result implied by the AP.

According to the actual law, “(b) to make false statements or representations to the government or its agencies in order to obtain property of the government, or that the defendant performed acts or made statements that he/she knew to be false, fraudulent or deceitful to a government agency, which disrupted the functions of the agency or of the government.”

At no time has anyone demonstrated false statements to any election agency on the matter. Not including this aspect of the law shows that the AP does not care about facts.