I mean, yeah, the former ambassador who lost his job for having too much integrity to play the established game says "hey, the public record here isn't right, and I know because I was one of the players. Here's the timeline that lines up exactly with what happened and my previously published schedule", and the reaction is either not mentioning him at all, or saying the equivalent of "lol, idk, fuck that guy I guess", then yeah I'm going to give some respect to what he says.