Somehow, I don't don't believe that Gorsuch is that devious. He is his own man and we'll just have to see what develops.
Did he REALLY say what is being reported? I doubt it/hope not; however, Roberts ( and others ) may have looked good on paper, but turned out to be POS.
Gorsuch isn’t devious but our boy Trump is the Grandmaster of Trollers and I wouldn’t put it past him. I always keep in mind that he knows every trick that the WWE uses to gin up an audience, and it looks to me like he figured out long ago that the elite press are no smarter than the ringside seats at Lucha Libre on a Saturday night.
But as you say we don’t know if or what Gorsuch even said.