I do not understand how this can be characterised as just putting them in touch.
You’re definitely right that it can’t. I imagine that many people (myself included) didn’t see these particular parts of the text message conversations.
FWIW, I think the talk about money was presumably just Will taking Sam’s word for it when he shouldn’t have, so there’s a sense in which the messages you’re quoting illustrate one mistake and not two.
That said, it’s a big one, if you vouch someone and then this happens (what we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks).
You’re definitely right that it can’t. I imagine that many people (myself included) didn’t see these particular parts of the text message conversations.
FWIW, I think the talk about money was presumably just Will taking Sam’s word for it when he shouldn’t have, so there’s a sense in which the messages you’re quoting illustrate one mistake and not two.
That said, it’s a big one, if you vouch someone and then this happens (what we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks).