She’s being too kind.
They weren’t mistakes.
They were deliberate deceptions in order to discredit President Trump.
AP’s Laurie Kellman and Jonathan Drew reported that a new report showed trust in the media had fallen during the Trump presidency.
But the report that AP cited was actually over a year old and was conducted while Obama was president.
40. Feb. 2, 2018:
AP’s Eric Tucker, Mary Clare Jalonick and Chad Day reported that ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s opposition research against Trump was initially funded by a conservative publication: the Washington Free Beacon.
AP corrected its story because Steele only came on the project after Democrats began funding it.
True
One poster mentioned she called them mistakes to avoid legal issues
And yes you are correct