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What is this potentially responsible usage in this case?

It's part of the progression. You say something that sounds "defense adjacent," and is also true. The other option is to just attack the person speaking, or to attack the victim. Dealing with the facts at hand is right out.

Honestly, having watched some of Hasan's stream today, I kind of get where they pick it up from. He spent, no lie, about 40 minutes just talking continuously about how "they" are out to get him and "they" just think every bad thing about him and obviously he would never hurt his dog and she's super well trained, basically just doing everything possible to dodge or deflect the accusation, but always in this incredibly condescending tone of voice like what he is saying is obviously the truth and anyone who doesn't think so is stupid. He actually, to his credit, did address it head-on somewhat after those 40 minutes were up, but still in the most backwards ass way possible (search for "ants" to see my comment about some of the more batshit things he said).