One must know what they say is untrue, and speak it anyway; therefore, not knowing it is untrue, and speaking it anyway is not a lie; just stupidity: cf true believer "truffers". By this standard, O is stupid; but we already knew that. Continuously repeating after he demonstratively knew is a lie AND stupid.
O willfully and with malice aforethought spoke what he had the power and authority to make true, by regulating his regulators; but instead, with knowledge, he made void his own words; and should have known he would eventually be caught out:
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