'While generalized social trust had been deteriorating, Donald Trump and his MAGA movement pushed distrust to truly pathological levels. This was particularly true of trust in government, which Trump and his allies branded as a malevolent “deep state,” a government manipulated by hidden elites to take advantage of ordinary people. Distrust of the state has always been one of the core elements of American political culture, something traditionally shared on both the right and left. But now Americans were told by right wing conspiracy theorists that their government was not simply incompetent, but actively working against them, falsifying election outcomes, lying about statistics, engaging in politicized prosecutions, manipulating the public health system, and conspiring to change the country’s demographics by opening the southern border to illegal immigrants.'

Where's the lie?