All politicians tell lies, Jeromy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon, Theresa may, the list is endless, Trump gets hounded by reporters everytime he meets them take for instance a recent interview as journalist ask him " why is the FBI not investigating the Khashoggi murder" to which he replied "he is not an American citizen" so when someone asks him will you be paying the 1 million dollars IMO this is an insult to his intelligence & maybe he could not be bothered going down the route he has already taken & can't be arsed going through it all again, but he should have used different words as now he is being classed as a liar
Sorry, didn't realise that you had a problem with joined-up thinking. I'll leave you to it.