Before this thread ends I wanted to add something more general that John falls under.
I'm always hesitant with rooting for people that look like him even before their inevitable scandals happen. Because IMO this guy doesn't look like a Republican or a right-winger or anything associated with those categories.
What he does look like, is a stereotype formed in the mind of an out-of-touch consoomer. Some redditor's or some Sanfran/Las Vegas/New York faggot's imaginary concept of a right-winger. Imagine you were one, imagine you were a hard-line left-wing redditor and you wanted to create a right wing persona to infiltrate republican sympathisers or get some kind of money-making grift going on.
For a start, if you have a name like 'Goldman' or 'Goldstein' or 'Goldbaum', that has to go, because you are convinced that everyone on the right hates jews, that's why their most influential backer is AIPAC. So you take on a more western sounding name. A name you could picture an anglo having like Murphy.
Then for appearance, you are convinced that since many/all of those those right-wingers don't share your unconditional worship of womanhood and all things female, clearly your persona has to be a testosterone monstrosity with a big chin or even better for that hollywood hillbilly look, a massive beard. And to top it off, you either go bald or you get the Spencer haircut.
Then for the grift, you'd want to reel people in looking for guidance, because they're the easiest to scam. So you'd best form some kind of organization. Maybe even give it an occidental sounding name like 'The Order' or something. Maybe throw in a reddit meme like liminal spaces and you got 'The Liminal Order'.
Everything you see him say or do makes absolute sense if you go off of 'faggot larping as his warped idea of a right-winger'.