I think leftists are all about lying. It’s all they really have.
You have to be able to accept the Big Lie in order to muster any enthusiasm for the Marxist/Leninist orthodoxy.
They have been lying, rather successfully, for a hundred years. Almost the whole time that we have had a pretty centralized media, starting with the AP.
Remember This is the SAME administration that had all it talking heads telling every reporter they could find after Benghazi 09-11-12 that the attacks were caused by a You Tube Video.
We know the 0 regime habitually lies for political gain. This is more of the same.