Yeah I don't have any factual data to back that up. I accept their statement based on his experience running The Apprentice. He loves to make people compete for a project and tell the losers, "You're Fiyyaaad!!"
At the risk of stating the blatantly obvious, this will be a rebranded Chinese phone, if it happens at all. The photo on their website [1] is a quick and sloppy Photoshop job (note identical lenses and lack of flash), and the specs and pricing are totally implausible for a US-made phone. Compare that to the 2000$ Purism charges for their comically under-powered Liberty phone [2] that is mostly US-made.
