The sad thing is that I believe some people (not necessarily referring to our friend here) have told so many lies that they can no longer recognize falsehood.
In my own college years temporary sojourn in environmental liberalism; I was taught that the actual facts didn’t matter as long as the „narrative“ was truthful.
The day it really dawned on me was the time i participated in a trash pickup along a river. Our leader had us all empty our trashbags into a smaller area and arrange it so that it looked like the bank was trashier than it really was (before the scheduled media visit of course). The media were told that this was what the bank actually looked like. Our leader told us that it wasn’t a lie because it served the greater purpose of.