Is it illegal to lie in a documentary? He was not under oath or an officer of the court at the time. Not that it was a good thing.
He’s playing a game. People in positions of power who are into playing games should be held to an extreme level of prejudice. Here in NJ there was a County Prosecutor who used his position to enrich himself and his family. After he was caught and ran off to Las Vegas and put a bullet into his head, thereby preventing the people of his county get justice, all this sympathy went toward his widow. I said she should have picked up his jail time as well. She enjoyed the wages of his sin.