It’s hard to take the word of someone who evidently has a history of genocide denial and who then turns around and talks about lebensraum as anything other than an admission of a Nazi-like ideology.

Being someone who you can have a conversation about other subjects with does not affect that. Then turning around and denying it does not change anything.

The only thing that might change my mind would be a complete retraction of both the lebensraum comment and the “there is no genocide” ones.