It is not a quote. In fact it is almost the opposite. It is a sentence fragment the author tagged to the end of an actual quote; the result being, as you demonstrate, that there will be some people who believe that was actually discussed.

It is an embellishment which nobody who had done any diligent research on the matter could have come up with.

Thus the entirety of the article is suspect, and the flowery writing style does not help in extracting what might be the actual facts.