I assume that when they over state something with lots of unnecessary adjectives ("no actual evidence of", "even the appearance of") to the point where it's impossible they are trying to tell the reader that the exact opposite is true but there is someone holding a gun to their head as they type.

You know like the old Freudian slip by Freud himself: “I can certainly recommend the Gestapo to everyone” - Sigmund Freud, 1938