It’s minor in the sense that it involved a small town and it was before the Internet Age pretty much. It’s major, in that it’s a possible character issue . There are more examples in the book but no point in detailing further
It doesn’t bother me if you like him, it is a fact, though, that he makes stuff up, he was caught red handed. Does he still? I have no idea
Not as bad as O’Keefe, obviously, that was hyperbole, but it has to give you pause
The ahem was apt because you’ve shown a tendency to view bias confirmation as objective truth and that’s also the truth