re: "Denial"
For reasons of my own sanity, I prefer to believe the incumbent President is an ignorant yahoo, not an intentional liar -- who is now cornered by the truth he refused to believe was possible, and has no recourse but to deny or misdirect (as Tom loves to do), hoping it goes away before the first Tuesday in November.
The real liars are those from whom the "inteliigence" was purchased by the ignorant yahoos. But you have to wonder why the yahoos were in the market in the first place . . .