It's certainly possible that Jim is being bamboozled by another rogue admin just like the B post incident.
His reluctance to dig deeper into the nonsensical explanation and calling anyone referencing the fact patterns shills is not a good sign tho.
As for motives for why and how someone is carrying this F&G op out?
The opinions are numerous and start to stray away from the facts known so far, so I'll gladly pass on chiming in on that for now.