At best, that is the nice way to describe treason.
I'm sorry but I think you fail to understand how this plays out in the real world, and you are justifying elected officials lying to the public.
Your devotion to the "team" is requiring you to perform mental gymnastics which demand that you ignore the obvious and then come up with an idealistic situation that justifies being lied to.
That is crazy scary
I'm always so amazed when painters can really capture something about a person that makes me feel like I know the person, like is shown here
I can't explain what element it is that makes that happen, but I know it when I see it