What it would be like if he had a working brain:
Did someone ask you to lie about his health? A. No.
Instead we get:
Did some one ask you to lie about his health? A. I invoke the fifth so I won't incriminate myself!
It seems that one would be easy.
If they could truthfully say, "He was super fantastic, a brainiac with a photographic memory, he ran circles around us, never had problems and most especially was not devolving into a mushroom. He's spectacular and never gave me an indication that some potatoes are smarter than he is." they would.