And I am supposed to have a public trust in people who lie to me. The way to public trust is to tell the truth.
Get a clue!
Didn't say you needed to trust anyone, just that lies are a part of the process: no one knew the Japanese were en-route to Hawaii,
no one knew their pet dictator (pick a name) was shipping funds to the islands,
no one knew the Kosovo protection corps was the KLA with new badges,
no one knew Lenin was on a train to Moscow,
no one knew all the illiterate voters on that bus were illegal immigrants....
But once a lie has been placed in the books as fact, even tenuously, no following administration is likely to discredit it;
probably not even when it would benefit them in the short term.
Exception when the lie was tactical and can be disclosed reasonably quickly by the same person who told it,
(as in, well, yes, Saudi Arabia might have mentioned wanting us out but we didn't want to shake the coalition up...)
And please believe me, I DO have that clue.