If someone sends you something that says we landed on Mars and made contact with other life forms, a respectable person researches it before passing that information along as possibly real… Not send it to people and say “holy cow have you seen this” and then have them respond telling you youve fallen for crazy junk again.
It shows that he incapable of taking care of himself and requires a caretaker.
It’s fine to make a mistake, or fall for something, it happens. It should be rare though, especially if you are running to be responsible for the lives of hundreds of millions of people directly, and billions indirectly.