Lying is Hard
You have to keep track of your lies or you will self-contradict.

The NYTimes has a summary of Pumpkin's lies about Russian meddling in our 2016 election. It's great because it's built as a timeline, showing how he bobs and weaves with every new development in the investigation.
With last week's indictment of 13 Russians and three Russian companies as criminally interfering with a US election, specifically to aid the election of the Pumpkin, the tangled web is weaving tighter.
Strangulation will do.