Have officials in the US ever been prosecuted for telling voters lies that they want to hear in order to validate their own delusions? We can draw a meandering

Have officials in the US ever been prosecuted for telling voters lies that they want to hear in order to validate their own delusions? We can draw a meandering line from this tweet back through at least 2000, when a US presidential candidate dismissed his opponent's quantitative reasoning about climate change as "fuzzy math". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_math_(politics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_math_(politics)