Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-27234079-20191221163921/@comment-14909251-20200102001507

MobiusEternal1 wrote:

You’re thinking in the short term negative effects, or rather more akin to Ozpin’s overly passive strategy.

Short-term negative effects can easily become long-term negative effects. They are on the verge of an internal conflict and general uprising. News like that, just blurted out without a second thought, has a good chance of being the match to the powder keg. It is not like Weiss can prove definitively that the video is authentic. What would happen is the council members would say there needs to be an investigation to determine the veracity of the claims. Meanwhile, being politicians, they would all leak everything to the public.

You also can't discount that Jacques, being head of the SDC, can bring a certain amount of hell himself in addition to what Watts and Tyrian would pull. More likely, Weiss will bring it to someone's attention, assuming she gets that far, and they will discuss what to do rather than just bursting in with the information. It is also possible Watts will not even say anything especially incriminating on the video, presuming there is audio. All they'll have then is Jacques meeting with a guy who is supposed to be dead and maybe some hint that he helped with Jacques getting elected.