There is no one alive who can affirm any of his childhood stories. It can be whatever he wants it to be.
You just said what I was thinking. Just on his say so?
What a fraud.
That's a very good point.
Bambi has had us all so concerned about his raw power grabs and ruthless reengineering of our system that we have forgotten that behind this dictator there is a sociopath, somebody who really has no personality of his own and who views all reality as something that can be manipulated to create this missing personality.
Between the fact that he holds a position that makes his alternate reality almost too powerful to be challenged, and the fact that the only people who could say anything about the actual facts are either dead or have been silenced by their governments (as in the case of his Kenyan relatives), he can say anything he wants and get away with it.