Better to make the world's worst excuse than lie in a way that'll instantly be revealed in discovery for any case that comes of this.
The surprise is that he let himself be reached for comment at all. Between that and the "yeah, I sure goofed it, huh?" style of what he said when he was, I wouldn't be too astonished to see a golden handshake eventuate in the fullness of time.
Better to make the world's worst excuse than lie in a way that'll instantly be revealed in discovery for any case that comes of this.
The surprise is that he let himself be reached for comment at all. Between that and the "yeah, I sure goofed it, huh?" style of what he said when he was, I wouldn't be too astonished to see a golden handshake eventuate in the fullness of time.