Yeah, especially because he contradicted himself several times, it doesn't seem like he believed it. He's really committed to trolling.

Labeling someone a "troll" for that level of evil feels enabling to me.

Saying that he actually believes his grift can make him seem kinda innocent, but I'm not going to assume that's the intent if someone says it.

Saying two different things at two different times is not prima face evidence of lying. For instance: changing your mind is not lying.

Again, I find it ironic that you're using the same conspiratorial line of thinking that Jones himself does: e.g. "The CDC has changed their mask guidance so they must be lying about it"

It was convenient timing for him to call the shootings "100% real" the moment he ended up in court for it.

People often do realize they were wrong about their prior convictions when they're sitting in a courtroom, a decade later, faced with a life changing situation, and forced to hear overwhelming evidence of how they were wrong.

If this guy was some kind of savant, he wouldn't have been in that situation at all. There is no evidence that he is some evil genius. He has no higher education and is a diagnosed narcissist.