I want to be honest about that affidavit, because a person could read what I did and call it a trap, and I have thought carefully about whether it was one.

I did not fabricate anything.

I did not plant the morals clause to catch an innocent man; it is a genuine, standard instrument, present in serious deals precisely because a fund’s reputation travels with the people it backs, and any competent founder expects to sign one and answers its questions truthfully.

All I did was decline to warn him — decline to lean across the glass and whisper Jonathan, read the bottom of the page, think about last night before you sign. I held a door open, and I let him choose whether to walk through it, and he walked through it without so much as glancing at the frame.

That is the thing people miss when they imagine you can trap a good man this way.