Thanos Thanos:
Could be lying too. To that kind of right-wing brain falsely claiming to have it could be some kind of stunt to make him look like an ubermensch so they can play the angle of "look at how hard he works while sick, to save our country from the commies, why can't you cowardly ghetto worms do the same?!?!?". This is how they play the REAL MAN game. Christ, at this stage it's like all the authoritarian creeps in the world are just operating their scams line-by-line from the script from the Bob Roberts movie.
I had that thought after I posted about him the first time. All of the far-right Putin acolytes including Trump are trying to create this dystopian fake news alternative reality where you just can’t know what’s real and what’s propaganda generated by the strongman’s regime. The goal is to get everyone to just mistrust everything and tune out all information