But in the case of Australia, we caught them just plain lying barefaced.
This is commonly done by all interest groups, political parties, governments, spies, military, peaceniks, civil libertarians, mafias, marrieds, adults and children, professionals, religionists, financiers, animals, birds and bees, and as we see here, cryptologists, wanna bes and top notch researchers and privacy promoters. Lying is simply unavoidable, believe or not, doesn't matter, it's built into the brain for survival, eat before being eaten, cheat before being cheated. Trump is hardly the first to lie, cheat, steal, grab genitals, piss on putting greens to fertilize the artificial weed, drive bogies and fart in stenching contest with gobblers and drunks on the gated links and pigging out in his wee dick whorehouse hotels erected on a showboat of lies -- aka The Presidency and its pretentious trappings of house, aircraft, limos, secret service, derivative diplomacy, ugliest architecture and vulgarest national capital of "democracy" on the desertification by fuel-fossiled machines, especially computers, of diminishing landform Earth. Fishes await the few survivors to paddle out to sea.