"I also hope" It's a figure of speech. It's objectively better if it were.
By the way, by his own standards (if someone believes in whatever he is doing, frankly, he seems to be a troublemaker) what he is doing seems to be... very unethical.
For instance, instead of giving advice (well, minus all the censorship and most over the top stuff) to someone many months ago quietly, he seems to have sat there trying to manufacture a "scandal", so that he could descend down like some sort of "wise sage".
Even if the vendor was wrong though, or perhaps, imprecise (seems like a stretch, but alright, let's theorize that way), it's still the usual "what if" "could be" "might be" "possibly".
And, again, not really practically relevant.