It is not even a smoking gun. It is a reporter who says somebody in the AG Barr universe said something.  How about this:  "My Crystal ball" tells me" .... "My little finger tell me" .... "my gut tells me" ... "my neigbor told me, that somebody working at the garage met a guy who said he saw .... rumor, hearsay It is like the STeele dossier: unverifable! Another persepctive: Have we learned nothing from #WAPO #NYT #failingpileofgarbagepropagandadissemination (BTW if you wanne know why a newspaper is rimming Gebreyesus day in day out, check whether that news organisation is a member of UNDPI, department of Information of United Nations. In the requirements of admission it s agreed that the member conducts an effective propaganda campaign and from time to time they must provide proof)  So let's take this as freedom loving people we are for what it is.