No idea, but he does for some reason promote ZCash instead of Monero, and won't even speak of Monero, which is certainly odd.
He might not really be against anonymous digital money, but he does have a reputation to protect. So maybe he has to draw the line somewhere.
Or maybe he doesn't want to draw attention to Monero because he wants to protect it's utility.
Zcash focuses on anonymity too.
Something along these lines
just asking so I can forward this to the Russian mafia to give to Putin. Putin will want his half of all of Snowden's cryptocurrency holdings. Thus, all who donated to Snowden likely donated to Putin.