Dlugy statement - Bogus or legit?

I personally feel it's complete nonsense that is meticulously crafted with a lot of deflections and zero admission of guilt. I cannot believe he is actually sticking to the 'moves called out by 1500 ELO students' excuse. But the most desperate attempt at seeking redemption was when he tried to deflect blame by citing the Magnus-Howell incident as cheating, and compared his situation with Magnus' unprompted one-move 'cheating' while he was farting around drunk on stream in front of the entire world.

Overall, the statement feels like an obtuse attempt at evoking a self-image of 'innocent person who was accidentally silly on one occasion'. It does not seem like an innocent person's statement as much as someone who wants to stubbornly defend what he's done without acknowledging how silly it really looks.

Just my take, though. Would like to hear any legitimate counter argument that supports Dlugy.

I had not seen the Dlugy statement-- https://en.chessbase.com/post/gm-dlugy-on-carlsen-niemann

As I read the Dlugy statement, the conman’s creed, “Never give up the con”, counter accusation and shifting blame rather than honesty seemed to me to be on full display.    

His statement was believable and fairly well-crafted up until his explanation of the 2020 banning.  I didn't think that citing the Carlsen/Howell incident was a deflection so much as it was a relevant example of hypocrisy that we're seeing from some in the chess community.

However, his explanation for the 2020 banning just didn't seem sufficient.  While I do agree that chess.com's process is unfairly biased against the accused cheater (e.g., chess.com's detection methods are opaque, they have too much influence in the chess world, and the burden is placed on the accused to prove his innocence without even having full knowledge of the accusations), I just don't buy Dlugy's reasoning for not fighting the 2020 ban.  I don't see someone with his pride and stubbornness agreeing to a false confession due to a lack of time.

Also, who had a lack of time in the Spring of 2020?  We were all in lock down.  We had nothing BUT time. 

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