The Trump team is now lying

In fact, Trump's behavior actually disincentivizes telling the truth. Because he lives in a fantasy world of his own creation, anyone unwilling to play along in that world is castigated, dismissed as insufficiently loyal to him and the broader administration. Lying to support Trump's lies, then, is a survival technique. Which doesn't excuse it. There is NO way that McEnany, Grisham or Conway truly believe that Trump never lies. The evidence is simply overwhelming. But like Spicer and Sarah Sanders and so many other Trump surrogates that have come before them, they are choosing adherence to the President over adherence to the truth. Their unwillingness to acknowledge that Trump is a serial prevaricator -- or to, at a minimum, avoid strongly defending the idea that he never lies, ever, is complicity in those lies. Trump's assault on truth -- and the very idea that capital "F" facts exist -- will linger in politics (and our culture) long after he and those who serve him are gone. And that is a very, very bad thing. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/29/politics/donald-trump-kayleigh-mcenany-stephanie-grisham/index.html