If it helps, you see, he was “in government” at the time so he had no choice but to be a shit eating sycophant who told the president whatever he thought he wanted to hear.

“Just following orders” is very famously not a defense for being complicit in a genocide

How can they be tankies AND give a shit about what the Pope says?

There are Catholic Communists. The world does not conform to your perception of drama on a tiny collection of web forums.