Convenient to make inferences when trying to illustrate a story.
Even with that intellectual leap I'm still not seeing the crime here. What would prince be hiding from lying about this especially cause the lie in about setting up aline of communication which of course means there wasn't communication beforehand.
This is yet another example of a regurgitated story to keep the base lively going into the 2018 mid term elections. What's the new story here? Somebody unamed said prince didn't tell the truth? How does that change anything about hat actually happened and it's implications?