Was my reaction as well. But, alas, talent and wisdom do not always come together.

It was an accomplice who used the information.

"Mr Obama's senior science and technology adviser John Holdren had his personal accounts hacked and Gamble passed all of his personal details to an accomplice who used them to make hoax calls to the local police claiming that there was a violent incident at Mr Holdren’s house resulting in an armed swat team being deployed."

Exactly. It was not the person we're discussing, we presumably have no idea if the person being discussed was even aware of these events.

That's the danger of doxxing, once it's out there any sociopathic edgelord can order 15 pizzas, swat you, basically do some shit to fuck with you, except people get killed when SWATting occurs and you can just say I didn't order these when the pizza guy shows up.

What?

maybe he meant "he would NOT have been" instead of "He would’ve been a poor kid had he not swatted people"