I'm sitting here chuckling because my son used to troll me. He would purposely say things untrue to get me to argue with him. It was infuriating and distracting, he'd just use one untruth after another until we were arguing about something completely different <which was the whole point>. He started with me one day and I'd watched this go on before and I started to argue with him then I closed my mouth. After a moment or two of thought this is what I said to him: "You know what, you've got a problem, you just want to be right; and the reason I know that you have this problem is because I have the same problem, I'm doing something about mine, what are you doing?" His reaction was to sit back, shut up, and grin. I finally won. I think the fact that I loved him and he loved me made this go much better, but still, he taught me something that day, but it wasn't in what he was saying but in what he was doing. We never went that route again.
He would say such blatant illogical statements as arguments and string me along. There is always a switch, a twist and if they can get it an outrage on the recipients end.