[rsynnott]

Ah, well, you see, the true believers will simply rewrite history; there was never any lie at all! For instance see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42647171 . Informed people knew it was a lie from the start (there not being $2bn discretionary spending to cut). The average Trump voter will never hear about this retreat. That's most of the major groups covered. Thus, there are no consequences to this sort of obvious lie.