Reply #14: I simply cannot fathom what he could have been thinking.

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The "I've spent as much time at GZ as the rescue workers" comment was one of the dumbest political statements I can recall. Dumb, in part, because it was so easily disprovable.

Unfortunately, one of the only possible conclusions is that he's ridiculously full of himself, and he honestly believes that his "contribution" is equivalent to those who spent months there.