It&#x27;s obviously not a direct question (there are people defending him in this thread, so of course he &quot;believes&quot; that), and as a rhetorical one it implies that he is lying. That&#x27;s not a civil debate tactic—there&#x27;s a reason why parliamentary systems expel people for using it.<p>Everyone needs to err in favor of respect when addressing someone on the other side of an argument, especially when one&#x27;s passions are agitated, because the default is to forget all that.