If someone actually threatened to hang him to his face, he would have led with that instead of listing it after name calling and Trump tropes (whatever the fuck that means).

He's seen the helicopter rides comments online and he decided to use that and make up a story about it actually being said to him.

These journalists are at a minimum audio recording everything while they're interacting with the convoy, and most of the time there's also a camera rolling. So if someone threatened to hang him to his face he would have the receipts to back it up.