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How is it offputting to say "listen to me because I'm an expert, here's my credentials"? Everybody's so fast to claim "fake news" nowadays that demonstrating your credibility has become a requirement.
The person he was responding to was asking for some specific clarification. Instead of offering it, he appealed to his own authority, essentially listing his credentials in a pompous way and then saying "You don't need to understand. I'm the expert, I'll understand it for you."
He's answering to a person saying "IANAL" asking whether this really is illegal with "I am an expert on this particular law, helped to write its replacement and already had confirmation from DG Just (EU Commission) that the law applies in the way I have stated". Seems perfectly apropos to me.