Seriously, this "man" is acting like a BIG BABY and everyone seems to want to coddle him and talk to the poor little boy.
He's a GROWN MAN and acting like a two-year-old
Does the phrase TIME OUT mean anything here?
Give him a TIME OUT... let him STEW in his own panick and shame for a couple weeks...let him run damage control on people you have already preppared for him.
I honeslty cant' see him taking the smear campaign or whine campaign far... but let him try!
The more he tries to smear you and the more he whines about "conspiracies" the more CHILDISH he LOOKS to EVERYONE.
Let him stew and throw tantrums like a baby for a couple weeks and MAYBE just MAYBE he might show some signs of growing UP.
Stop trying to baby him, he's in tantrum mode.
Give him a time out and leave him ALONE to grow UP.