This lie is pretty much on par with pleading innocence while holding the evidence of guilt in your hands.
It's not though. Clearly Obama's turnout was much larger. We have the photo evidence as well as various ways of estimating this, such as how busy the rail systems are. There are no "alternative facts." Believing in Creationism doesn't make the evidence for evolution go away or make it correct. It doesn't matter what you believe about electricity, the math still has to be correct for a properly functioning anything.
The crowd size estimate is a particularly insignificant thing to argue about.
I don't know who is lying or who is just plain wrong.
It just doesn't matter compared to other things politicians believe or claim to believe.
I expect Trump to be trouble. I just don't know when & how yet.
My diagnosis....
People who hate Trump, want to continue hating him, & are seizing upon this tempest
in a teapot because it confirms their bias. Why something so insignificant? They've
little of substance yet from a newly minted administration. So they run with what they have.