More than that. He built the gallows, strung the rope himself, and pulled the lever himself.
I agree with you and not with others. I think the released video of him talking about “Father Mike” was mindbogglingly awful. I will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s (or this month’s) fashions. That’s a quote from the commie Lillian Hellman who, whatever her manifest failings, could swing a sentence when she wanted to.