Cheaters always watching over their shoulder. How can you trust people if you know they can't trust you? Or worse, you can't trust yourself!
Same thing with people who speak negatively of others to you in private. Odds are they do the same thing, but about you, when speaking with others. If you confide something negative about someone else to them, they'll probably tell that person.
But, we can't just call (even implicitly) Amjad a "cheater".
This isn't rhetoric, this is lived experience. No character assassination required - the character in question has assassinated themselves
This is one side of the story, we don't have much evidence either direction, and it's not clear there was any "cheating" involved in anyone's past.
HN should do better.
This is a story told with receipts, and receipts carry a weight of their own. Namely, private emails made public. You can see for yourself whether you'll ever see the other side speak through the language of receipts.
So far all he has done is double down on the story told through the emails.