Someone who is very narcissistic and who still thinks if he lies boldly, baldly and constantly someone with deep pockets will fall for it.
His standard behavior when called out time and again for lying is to get upset with the people who not only do not fall for it, they call him out on it. Publicly.
“It’s not what I did - it’s how YOU responded to it!”
Remember how he went after first the mod and then the OWNER of the fish board when she (mod) told him NOT to use someone’s photo for his logo/business and pass it off as his own? He hadn’t paid for that shoot, he didn’t own the rights to it, etc.? The owner told him to back off and Nick doubled down on trying to insult both of them with his demand that they take it to PM. He had been caught in a lie and was furious that he was called out for it publicly. He felt that he was owed the opportunity to not be named, shamed and blamed.
Yeah. Over and over and over; year after year after year. Next step: some sort of chest-beating BS video or blog where he pretends to be SO wounded that people will worry they’ve pushed him to the point of self-harm. Poor wittle dear - we shouldn’t be so hard on him.
That’s as misguided as doing what someone tells you to do when they are holding a gun to you. If they say, “I’ll shoot if you scream” what they are REALLY saying is “screaming FIRE at the top of your lungs will lead to me getting caught”. Scream FIRE and fight like hell. It’s a tell.
So Nick is feeling vulnerable. Good. He should. If he stops now and sinks back into the muck of self-delusion and anonymity then it minimizes the chances he can mess up more horses or riders.