When making a more than million dollar purchase it seems like fact checking is a must. It really seems like their team didn't even read the white paper.
I cannot believe that Justin Sun is that gullible. I would be inclined to think that he is just playing the victim card because that gives him a way to be able to discuss with the witnesses/community.
We only speculating at this point but overconfidence is a bitch and sometimes the swindler gets swindled. STEEM was seen as a dead end project and he thought he could port over users to make his shit Tron network look active, when in fact its all bots and garbage dapps
This is what happens when you don't try to build a business, but just spend other peoples money and think you're an entrepreneur