There's a difference in kind between leniency and suspending all judgement. The GP was explicitly in favour of suspending all judgement. They didn't accidenta

There's a difference in kind between leniency and suspending all judgement. The GP was explicitly in favour of suspending all judgement. They didn't accidentally spin this so hard into a cover-up. Sure, if they showed a repeated pattern of such behavior, they should see greater consequences, but they still deserve to get called out hard on their first cover-up.