> ...his assertion that Trader Joe's mistreats their employees. He's not asserting that, he's using it as a hypothetical example: "If I were to boycott, say,

> ...his assertion that Trader Joe's mistreats their employees. He's not asserting that, he's using it as a hypothetical example: "If I were to boycott, say, Trader Joe’s, on the grounds that it mistreats its employees (for the record, I don’t think it does)..."