Yes, that was the key moment, when the SSPX’s Superior General could have “sat tall in the saddle”.
He could have stood-up for his Bishop and the truth... that the “h0Ɩ0cαųst” is another batch of тαℓмυdic lies.
But it was all part of the “Showa-biz”, script where Bp. Fellay was acting on queue.
From there, he led the bulk of organized Catholic tradition to neo-trad fairyland, where jews are our friends and the pope is a good guy.