> Getting your gmail account hacked does not reflect on you as a professional.

Why not? Most professionals at larger organizations have to do security training. These kinds of attacks are far less likely to succeed on anyone who follows the basic precautions taught in such training. E.g., if he had MFA enabled on his account - as he certainly should have had - they would not have been able to compromise it externally, i.e. it would have had to be much more than his email that was hacked.

I don’t get the propensity some people seem to have for defending this shameful collection of incompetent criminals, bullies, and clowns.