I think you could just as easily read this as a guy who (1) has enough money not to have an immediate need to work, and (2) is incredibly pessimistic about this whole thing -- meaning the overall political situation first, and now a sexual misconduct accusation on top of it -- and just doesn't want to deal with it. I've had half of that and have had a hard time slogging through a bunch of stuff you see as meaningless frustrations, so I can imagine the temptation to simply dip out if you have the means to do so.