Given they are trawling in vast amounts of information, most of which will never be looked at, wouldn't surprise me that they have pulled in lot of inadvertant info.Maybe he thinks that the bold gives him an out but we all know that it happens, what did you really expect him to say?
I have no doubt that it is happening in Australia right now.
Is it right? Not sure that our opinion matters sadly.
However, keep in mind that Trump has worked to raise doubts about the legitimacy of the courts, the CIA, the FBI, Congress, the electoral system, all regulatory agencies, and, not least, the media that might inform the public about his concerted and continual efforts to undermine all authority--with the exception of his own.
What would we think if we saw the leader of another western nation (UK, Canada, NZ, etc) deploying this strategy?