If there's money to be made duping the gullible people of this earth, somebody will find a way to exploit it. This is no different. He's just playing to the echo chamber right wingers that want the confirmation bias that he provides.
There are hundreds if not thousands more like him, making 10-30k a year creating fake news like this for the Cons and Libs.
I'm just glad that it is coming to light more now - soon this will be remembered as the Nigerian E-mail scams of our time. Hopefully the more people that know about this BS the less relevant they will be.