> In fairness, he's been busy with another legal battle that he appears to consider a matter of life-and-death.
Agreed, it will be very interesting to see how this particular thing goes forward from today. Ideally, he would defend himself. I wouldn't hate to be proven wrong, as heroes are few and far between.
However, post-release, becoming a main character in a certain political branch of the podcast-sphere might allow him to ignore any of these annoying factual issues and do just fine.
(I don't buy the argument that it was actually that, but I'm willing to believe that he convinced himself that it was).