If anyone has ever watched a TV show like "The Blacklist", then you know, that even though it's just TV, there is an element of truth (and you-know-this-is-actually-doable-and probably-is-happening-in-real-life) to the way the show makes people appear and disappear for one purpose or another.

For Kash and Bongino's actions to be labeled "blatantly lying", per OP's title, we would all have to know with 100% certainty what we obviously don't: what has actually happened to Epstein.

Personally, I sense that perhaps he's still alive, but the only ones who know for sure aren't saying yet, and given the nature of Q, there is a reason for that and it will eventually out.

In the meantime, there is no sense to be made of sowing doubt and discord in an arena where we, the observers, have less than zero influence. Watch the movie frens, expand your thinking, control your emotions.