“Inappropriate” doesn’t even come close to describing his comments or, worse, his actions. What a seditious, low crawling weasel. And he wasn’t nuanced in the slightest; it was the most audacious kind of boasting from an arrogant elitist authoritarian.
Yes. The inappropriateness of his comment on the tape is being used as a diversion to cover for the inappropriate actions that he confesses to on the tape.
And he again thinks that people are stupid enough to fall for his diversion.