Booker has a long and well-documented history of making shit, and people, up to embellish a political point he's wanting to make.
Since 2000, he was using the drug dealer "friend" of his, T-Bone, to make points of how enemies can be friends. Only, through exhaustive research, it was discovered no such dealer going by any such name existed where Booker lived.
He even went so far as to claim T-Bone was shot and died IN HIS ARMS. The National Review had to sue to get public police and court records that were being withheld from them via normal channels. Turned out, T-Bone never existed.
When confronted on this obvious cascade of false stories, Booker admitted T-Bone never existed as an individual, but instead "T-Bone's corporeal being is 1,000 percent real, he's an "archetype" of an aspect of Newark's woe whose actual nom de crack may not actually be T-Bone."
Basically, he's saying T-Bone did exist -- as a "composite" (representation made up of many people), but not as a real person.
So, story after story about his life on the New Jesey streets and making friends with a drug dealer named T-Bone was a fabrication. He even used the name to drive home the point that a vegetarian and a man named T-Bone was significant -- as if a name holds any such meaning.
He's a nacissistic, arrogant, liar who must be the center of attention.
Saying he's had his "Spartacus Moment" releasing information against the Senate's rules, even though the same information had already been officially released by the Senate, shows how desperately he needs to be seen as some sort of fighter. He's not.
https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/01/remember-t-bone-cory-bookers-imaginary-d