It’s hardly worth mentioning lies like this at this point, but perhaps it’s good to have them on the record:
He was just making stuff up, of course.
I doubt there will be very many politicians who will so confidently and brazenly lie like this, over and over again. But we really need to grapple with how so many tens of millions of people in this country came to see this as perfectly acceptable. There’s something truly sick about us, and it has something to do with celebrity culture, capitalism and the idea that “promotion” (meaning lying) is perfectly fine.