No: he was told to keep quiet saying it was True. He did not (and by the way he wrote a pretty insulting book against the other party, painting them as “simplic

No: he was told to keep quiet saying it was True. He did not (and by the way he wrote a pretty insulting book against the other party, painting them as “simplices” -idiots, simple minds). He could havo got away with everything just saying “if this is true then...” But he did not. And turns out it was not because of “honesty”... Not that the other party was quite honest anyway.