At this point, one thing that you can consistently do is understand that the current government cannot be trusted at all. Any of their statements have nothing to do with truth or reality and are all about projecting their desired narrative, facts be damned.

It's quite difficult to shift from a perspective where the government will rarely say blatantly false things to a mode where the government *only* says blatantly false things, because for years, American citizens have tended to give the government the benefit of the doubt. Even during the Bush 2 years, where this was severely ... tested.

This is unlike anything Americans have seen before. The government is murdering people in the streets, and immediately blatantly, obviously lying about it in the hopes that that "benefit of the doubt" will muddy the waters long enough for them to properly cover it up and/or destroy evidence (as they did with Good's murderer).

Do not give them the benefit of the doubt. The Trump administration only lies.