I understood “just saying” as a reference to the argument you imply here. That is, you are treating the object-level rejection of terrorism as definitive and rejecting the audience’s inference of endorsement of terrorism as a simple error, and DG is observing that treating the object-level rejection as definitive isn’t something you can take for granted.
I understood “just saying” as a reference to the argument you imply here. That is, you are treating the object-level rejection of terrorism as definitive and rejecting the audience’s inference of endorsement of terrorism as a simple error, and DG is observing that treating the object-level rejection as definitive isn’t something you can take for granted.