“he said to every person who interviewed him...that he screwed up, he messed up.”
Katie, it’s ok, you can breathe now. The point, lost on you, because while in his presence, you pee’d all over yourself, is that he is a ‘screw up’. So yeah, as a consequence, he ‘screws up’ and he ‘messes up’. That’s what ‘screw ups’ do.