His statements become predictable; he is a malignant narcissist. The moment that one is not stroking his ego or furthering his cause, “narcissistic discard” causes him to throw people away or under the bus; it’s not to protect himself, but to demonstrate his ego: that person is now not worth acknowledging, less than dirt, and beneath him. It will not matter how much evidence to the contrary that one has, because that just goes against the handwave of magic thinking (the magic thinking that the only reality is where he is the greatest, all other evidence is “fake”).

With Sociopaths, every accusation is indeed a confession.