Of course they will say they are transparent while lying about everything. People have been falling for their lies since 2016. Why wouldn't they keep lying?
The real question is why are so many people completely willing to sell their country, community, and future to these liars?
Ask any trump voter and you'll find various racial nationalism answer to it.
They aren’t falling for the lies, the lies are a mechanism of signaling that candidate is willing to harm those outside of their tribe (they are willing to be corrupt), and sufficient people believe they are in the tribe.
I don't know why this is being down voted. The white Christian nationalist movement absolutely is willing to burn America to get what they want - they are willing to be corrupt, elect corrupt, forget their religion, hurt the out-group, and lie to give plausible deniability while doing exactly that.
Downvoters: Prove that this administration is not corrupt and not hurting people instead of downvoting - or just accept the truth.
They've said it explicitly, this is a bloodless coup (so long as Democrats allow it). They see themselves as destroying America and creating their own country with completely different rights and laws, and they're well on their way.