There’s a lot of truth to this. The man is presumably deeply in denial about the court cases and a hell of a lot of other stuff.
Avoiding/sabotaging discovery is not exactly a deep strategy, though. I certainly think Jones is self aware enough to know if obeying the judge’s discovery orders could have hurt him more than losing a summary judgement.
The damage isn’t necessarily even related to the court case; it could be something that would hurt his reputation with his fans (e.g., the way he had to walk back his lawyer’s comments that it was all an act during the custody hearing). He’s a bit like Trump in this–he can’t handle a blow to his ego.
I also suspect that, if discovery would have been safe, we’d have him on video claiming that he has nothing to hide and they’re out to get him and blah blah blah. We’ll hear that last bit soon enough.
