Whether he is lying about /her/ or not isn’t the point, that he is using his position of power to get a random citizen fired is. And it isn’t bluster, he would

Whether he is lying about /her/ or not isn’t the point, that he is using his position of power to get a random citizen fired is. And it isn’t bluster, he would gladly succeed and do it again. That it doesn’t even seem to register to you as extraordinary only demonstrates my point.