You don't need to know him personally. He's talked publicly about being bipolar and how it makes him imagine scenarios exactly like those he has described recently. His recent behaviour has all the hallmarks of a bipolar episode. I think there's a good discussion to be had about how we should talk about situations like this but dismissing it out of hand definitely isn't helpful.

> I don't think you can say anything so factual about his life, let alone that he's being scammed.

One thing I think it's possible to say definitively is that he was played by Tucker Carlson's team. The comments they didn't air, like those about Jewish people, are headline making. Any serious journalistic outfit would have aired them. The fact that they cut around them shows that they wanted to paint Kanye in a particular way for their own purposes.