Winston Churchill once said that “men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” Kwame Brown, on the other hand, has been figuratively thrown under the wheels of two luxury SUVs — which means its going to be a lot harder to try and act like nothing had happened.

Last night, Brown maintained to WUSA9’s Bruce Johnson that he didn’t ask for a “fully loaded” Navigator L with several luxury options, despite the Washington Post’s acquisition of emails from the Chairman’s staff explicitly requesting such things: “It’s a possibility that someone said hey, ‘he wants it fully loaded,’ and that’s why I take full responsibility,” said Brown.

NBC4’s Tom Sherwood went to Brown’s Hillcrest home, where a “subdued” Chairman “insisted he wasn’t aware of the costs.” Brown also told Fox 5/WTTG that “they ordered [the first Navigator] wrong and that they said they would clearly order another vehicle and they did.” The Post’s report indicated that Brown was given the option to keep the first gray-interior Navigator, but didn’t.

The financial aspect of the kerfuffle is a big enough stain on Brown’s reputation, but constantly lying about his involvement with it won’t do the Chairman any favors. As City Paper’s Alan Suderman succinctly put it this morning: “Keep digging Kwame! Your creditability must be down there some where.”