Word that Kellyanne Conway had invented the Bowling Green Massacre left the Trump administration with a 7-10 split. So the president is going for a spare. On Monday, he asserted that the media is (for some reason) covering up terror attacks: “It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported. In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that.” (If truth is a strike, that was a gutter ball.)

+ It turns out that the MSNBC interview was not the first time Kellyanne Conway referred to the Bowling Green Massacre.

+ Related: Polls that are negative about Trump are fake news.

+ “Maybe it has nothing to do with Donald Trump, but somehow these hate creeps have been less shy about their beliefs. They’ve been emboldened.” When the massacre of schoolchildren is called a hoax.