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What would motivate him to even mention it if it wasn't true?
Gullibility, victimhood seeking, moral relativism.
Gullibility tends to create extremist conservatives. They get told some stupid lie that feeds into their desire to play the victim and hate the evil liberals who are doing the victimizing, so they instantly believe it with all their heart and soul, no matter how crazy it is. Thus, that becomes their new reality.
Then it's compounded by their near-pathological inability to admit error, especially to the people on their vendetta list. They get called on the big lie, they can't back it up, but they can't admit to being fooled, so they deflect by getting hysterical at the people who called them out, and by doubling down on the lie.
I think it's a question of whether FA can be considered sane. Does he understand that he's lying, and that lying is wrong? For many extremist conservatives, the answer is "no" to such questions. They redefine reality so as to never see themselves as lying, or they classify lying as a moral good if the lying is done in the name of hating liberals.
Those aren't motivations at least not from full auto that I have seen.Gullibility, victimhood seeking, moral relativism.