He also sent reporters photos of himself in an isolation tent during the first week of COVID, with metadata to match. Guessing it's faked.

He just never quits. It's gone from Tom Ripley to weird performance art.

Fat Clark Kent.

I think at this point that this guy has lied about literally everything in his background.

I would check his legal name, citizenship, whether he got the GED he claims, residency, etc. He's a congenital liar, not an "embellisher."

Maybe?