I don't know what he understood, he might have been drunk and not thinking or understanding much. The way I see it ---it's not so different than when you work for a corporation and some VP is caught doing something undefendable. It's not loyalty to the corporation to defend or even try to understand those who might be higher up but behaved like criminals or oafs. You don't quit your job because they do ---you're glad that they were caught and hope things get cleaned up so the company can survive.