When people communicate verbally one side often hears only what they want to hear. It is the reason written agreements are so important. Muellers side could have been talking out of their rear and when RR didn’t extremely strongly draw a line assumed they had a go ahead for their own plan not the plan of this admenistration Again otoh RR could have been setting them up the bomb. BOOM.
That’s true, and also a person’s mindset. What they have just read or been doing can impact what they perceive a meaning to be.