“Get in front of Congress,” one user wrote in a reply that received more upvotes than the anonymous official’s original answer. “…You could be a hero and instead you are doing below the bare minimum to help yourself fall asleep.”

At one point, the official promised to come forward before the 2020 presidential election, but this pledge seemed to only make matters worse on Reddit, with one user replying, “This is so theatrical. He’s either a threat to this country or he’s not. The longer you wait the less your statements mean anything.”