Something to keep in mind.

The Associated Press covered the speech but failed to mention the crowd size, a significant lapse in reporting. The AP did that because the news agency despises Trump and rarely reports anything positive about him.

Instead, the AP heavily implied that the former president was inciting violence in his remarks condemning those arrayed against him. Certainly, Trump is provocative in the extreme, but the incitement of violence is an opinion that should have no place in a hard news dispatch.

Editors at the Associated Press know that but don't care. They want all Americans to hate Trump as much as they do and don't understand why that's not happening.

Even though the AP is widely distributed, it doesn't matter much anymore what they do regarding Trump. Most Americans understand his upside and downside, so shading reports against him is largely a waste of time.

But the AP people simply cannot stop because they're addicted to the game. And there's no rehab in the world going to change that.