His outrageous claims about the crowds at the inauguration and about the vote during the election itself have one purpose only.  I doubt he believes his own BS. The claims are meant to make us all confused, to make us doubt the evidence before our eyes, to doubt reason itself. Meanwhile he pushes through stuff on pipelines, on settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank,  on refugees, on women's control over their own bodies, on the right of  scientists to talk about their work.  We are left flaying and arguing about his silly numbers about crowd size.