We've said the same thing all along about Donald Trump's story that he saw celebrates of 9/11 in New Jersey right after the attacks: Media claims that this is a "lie" are based on the absurd notion that if they, the media, can't find evidence of an event in their own reporting, then the event by definition never took place and the person talking about it is a liar.
There are a lot of reasons that proposition is Bolshevik: