MSNBC secured an exclusive interview with the man behind one of the election season’s most viral fake news stories about an FBI agent supposedly involved in a  murder/suicide plot surrounding a Clinton Foundation investigation. Not only did Jestin Coler divulge that publishing anti-Hillary Clinton stories was “addictive” and made him a lot of money, but he also admitted that he voted for her.

The 40-year-old Coler explained to MSNBC’s Jaco Soboroff how he and his friends produced the viral media from his home in Huntington Beach, California. He made the sites look like “real news” outlets like The Huffington Post so it would appear authentic. And then he would sit back and watch his stories reach millions in page views which translated to cold, hard cash.

“We did a series of stories on Ebola, where several residents in a small town in Texas had contracted Ebola,” Coler said. “We probably got about six million page views.”

“That’s huge,” Soboroff said. “You must get a kick out of that.”

“It’s very addictive,” Coler affirmed.

The money didn’t last, however. Google closed all accounts associated with the fake websites and Coler says he’s out of the fake news biz. He estimated that he received $8,000 for the FBI agent story alone. If he were to do it all over again, Coler said he would “take back” this particular entry, probably because he voted for Clinton.

But Coler got a quick jab on the media, chastising them for not doing their jobs:

“It’s kind of disappointing that it took President Trump for actual news outlets to focus on this phenomenon.”

Yet, even as the mainstream media foams at the mouth to pick and choose who gets categorized as “fake news,” i.e. conservative outlets for sure, MSNBC is still employing Brian Williams — the king of fake news — who introduced this segment. That's a real full-circle moment right there.