Trained under Peter Thiele in venture capitalist funding, the well trained lying charm of boardroom smarminess plays well to people enamored by sociopathic charms, which is a lot of people.
But his content was well-rehearsed, vacuous and memetic lies. “You weren’t supposed to fact check me” was key to the debate for me. It wasn’t long before I turned it off after that; it revealed why he kept fibbing earlier on and it indicated he would continue to the end.
I don’t need to see a lying charmer playing up to a camera.