They're under the influence, all right. The cult influences everything they say and do, and facts and truth is treated as clay that can be bent and shaped to whatever fits their narrative.
Hence the emergence of terms like "alternative facts". Imagine a living, breathing, thinking being hearing this and going "oh yeah, I'll have me some of that!"
It's like saying "alternative math", where 1+1 is whatever you need it to be.
What a bunch of complete m****s.😂