Many types of utterance do not more or less perfectly match with experience, however defined. Before you start talking about ‘lies,’ you should define what you mean.

Let me try: To be a ‘lie,’ a statement must 1) be known to the source as untrue, 2) be issued with the intention to deceive, 3) result in harm to the audience, and 4) apply to the past, which is verifiable, not the future.

Any statement about the future has probability, not truth value. The probability of a statement about the future becoming true depends on source evaluation and reference to experience.

What I mean is that most statements by politicians don’t mean jack . . . don’t mean much at all: just noise and the aura of feeling that might surround it.