You understand that responding in Public to a public discourse is the default unless you want to hide something.
Blaming me for “wasting everyone’s time” for asking someone else a question in public in response to that person’s public statement, how odd.
How is it leading and disingenuous to ask someone about their opinion on an issue? Especially if I don’t limit their options what so ever. I guess it is leading if you already think it is disingenuous, which would raise the question “what makes you think that?”. But I don’t want to waste your time like you wasted mine and everyone else’s by responding to a question that you didn’t attempt to even answer and wasn’t asked to you either.