The details would be useful.

For instance, Reagan used to tell a story about someone being hit by a car in a phone booth, and then, shockingly, suing the phone company.

What he left out was that the phone booth trapped the man inside, as the door mechanism was damaged after being hit by cars multiple times in the past, which the company was aware had happened, as they had been told multiple times to move the phonebooth from the blind corner at which it was located.

I don't know the details here, but it's worth keeping an open mind until you see the accusations and evidence.