If that's the case, then his timing was hideous - that isn't the sort of thing you tell everyone when someone was just expressing how much they would have killed you if it weren't too obvious, and it certainly isn't the sort of thing you tell everyone after weeks of going on and on about how everyone will want to kill you once they hear about it.

I told him, repeatedly, not to let people blackmail him for it. To get it out into the open. And then he goes and does it after it's plain that people want him dead for it. Really, what am I supposed to think about that? What's the thought process being doing anything like that. "Oh, well, a few people want me dead, what's a few more"?

[...He's fucking pissed, if it isn't obvious.]