Excellent, but you need to get two more in there:
Have a former general hireling smear all the people who heard and reported the communication, including name calling and making up a totally fabricated story of a first person report of what one of them said publicly, and claim others who were there had the same negative reaction.
Then have a Christian woman hireling tell the press that the former general’s completely disproved story was not to be questioned because he used to be a general.