Sen. Dan Sullivan, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Rep. Nick Begich the Third and Gov. Mike Dunleavy have yet to tell the truth about the gas line fraud show put on by Donald Trump in the Oval Office to promote Sullivan’s reelection campaign.

The four of them need to stop lying and apologize. There is no “historic $54 billion Korean investment in Alaska LNG.”

Only Murkowski deserves some slack because she was not one of the Alaska extras in the Trump liefest, as Sullivan, Begich and Dunleavy were.

As of Friday, all four are still lying.

Sullivan, Begich and Dunleavy said Wednesday that South Korea had agreed to invest $54 billion, taking Trump’s word for it.

Now they confess that South Korea has not invested $54 billion—because South Korea denied any such deal—but they predict the country will do so in the future because they trust Trump.

The Alaska trio won’t admit that the Sullivan campaign event in the White House was a political stunt that flopped because the truth came out.

Agreeing to study something is not the same as spending $54 billion, regardless of how Sullivan, Dunleavy and Begich try to spin it.

Next they will be telling Alaskans that nobody knows there is a “b” in dumb and the $5,000 checks are in the mail.

The Anchorage Daily News clouded the situation with a completely inadequate news story Friday that didn’t attempt to hold the Alaska politicians accountable for lying and allowed them to pretend they had not been party to a lie.

The thrust of the press release piffle in the ADN is that when Trump, Dunleavy, Sullivan and Begich said the historic $54 billion investment was in the bag, they weren’t lying, they were just wrong on the timing. It’s now a futuristic investment.

It will happen just as the White House mob boss said, sometime after the November election, but before the sun burns out.

The master negotiator is now threatening to double tariffs paid by Americans on South Korean imports unless the $54 billion is handed over.

This is ineffective damage control. It does not erase the lie about an alleged major breakthrough that has not happened.

“Alaska politicians clarify their views,” the Daily News claimed.

The newspaper accepted without question the evasion from Sullivan, Dunleavy and Begich—that we will soon take the $54 billion to the bank.

Korea denying the investment is simply a negotiating tactic as there are details to work out, according to their flimsy cover story. Anything to keep from identifying Trump as a liar.

Trump would have never held a campaign event for Sullivan to announce the truth—that Korea has made no decision on any investment in Alaska.

The real question is whether the Alaska politicians knew about Trump’s lie and were parties to it or whether they were fooled by Trump and his henchmen.

Were they ignorant of what the joint “fact sheet” from the U.S. and Korea said in the three noncommittal sentences that dealt with the Alaska project? Or were they lying to Alaskans to help Sullivan’s campaign against Mary Peltola?

When Sullivan claimed the project is now “across the finish line” was he lying?

You cannot get a promise of $54 billion out of these words without lying:

“The United States and Korea have agreed to commence working on the Alaska LNG project, subject to meeting commercial reasonableness under the Strategic Investment MOU and all applicable domestic legal requirements. In developing the project, the United States will facilitate the favorable involvement of Korean vendors and suppliers. The United States intends to provide assurances, to the extent possible, regarding offtake agreements at economically viable prices granting Korea priority access to Alaska LNG produced by this project.”

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Alaska's Congressional delegation and governor need to end gas line lies