Do they make these things up just right there on the spot, or in some dark room, somewhere, are there a group of highly trained fabricators and prevaricators working really hard for their campaign?

These guys lie when the truth would serve them better. They are getting pathological about it.

and he is so used to get it all approved by his inner-circle of yes-men that it just comes out of his growing nose naturally when he feels he's in trouble or something.

That's how he's got where he is. Like most of the 1% also.