It's not a person in the chat, it's an account. The account is usually controlled by the person associated with it, but you can't assume that it's always controlled by that person.
They’re not necessarily elected, nor American, but anyone who is important enough to be traveling by PAT is probably important enough to travel by motorcade when using surface streets.
One could assume that the previous priority was "grow the app catalog through the use of a permissive listing model," and it's changed to "improve the quality of the app catalog by being more selective about who and what is allowed to be listed."
Never present an option you wouldn't want to live with. The internet teaches us that what "nobody should ever do" isn't obvious to everyone all the time.