I feel like he just attended some dinner with a bunch of people and may not have known, but its just really odd that he doesn’t come out and say it until there are photos.
Like that would be worth spending a paragraph on that in his column. Even might help his case by saying even I met this guy and didnt know who the fuck he was. When that guy bribed a supreme court judge he came out and explained that he knows that guy before commenting on it

Unsurprising

How odd