The Clintons bragged about just that back in the later 90’s. Always lie. Lie big. Never mix truth in with lies. They were Bonnie and Clyde, with an establishment both shocked and in leg tingling envy at what they could get away with on any given day
They lied so often one could compile a top ten list of their favorites.
Bill was fond of ‘I didn’t....’ It included his favorite pronoun (’I’) and therefore his favorite person. It was a straight-up denial no matter how solid the case against him. As you say, he wasn’t going to help put the noose around his own neck.
Hillary, on the other hand, often tried to be more elliptical. Was it a woman thing? Did she actually have a shred of vestigial conscience? Or did she just think she was being clever?
At any rate, Hillary’s bread-and-butter lie was the ‘old news’ gambit. Every event except for the present is, by definition, in the past. Could be yesterday, could be last year, could be 5 minutes ago. To say that something is in the past is to state the obvious. But that didn’t stop Hillary from claiming repeatedly that because something happened last week it’s not a valid subject for discussion, criticism, etc. She would often combine her denials with ‘it’s old news.’ Her most recent attempt was claiming that Bill Clinton’s antics had ‘all been litigated.’ Litigated? It took impeachment of a president to get him to cop to anything!
Hillary’s triphammer ‘you know’ sounds at first to be one of those common, if annoying, Midwestern conversational placeholders. But after having to endure her in the media for a quarter of a century it became obvious that ‘you know’ was Hillary’s poker tell: whatever followed it would be an absolute falsehood. If you can stand it watch some of her media interviews and count the ‘you knows.’
She was a skilled and practiced liar but not even a sociopath like her could control every synapse in her brain which occasionally rebelled.