“asking them to officially confirm”
Actually quite a smart move.
By asking for official confirmation, he is putting someone at risk of perjury.
Anyone in Hawaii willing to go to jail for a Messiah that could be defeated in November, exposing them to a long prison sentence?
The way the request was made seems to allow Hawaii to simply say “Yeah - we got it” - raising nothing to view or to question than what’s already out there. IMHO. ;-(