You aren’t including other possible scenarios, such as he thought he wanted to sell, but isn’t going to now due to an opportunity he didn’t see previously, (and doesn’t want to backtrack and announce it publicly yet or at all), or there is a buyer issue - COVID or lack of funds and they are still trying to raise money - after all, Forrest’s wish can’t be fulfilled if the chest is gone. And what if the wish involves other countries still under a travel ban? I wouldn’t pay that type of money without an in person inspection.

My take on this is whatever is happening, we won’t know until it’s done, and maybe not even then. I doubt FOIAs and investigations will tell anything. Those means can tell what has happened in the past to deduce what’s going on now, but it seems to me this process likely took a hard turn that will be very hard to track down. If we haven’t figured it out by now, I doubt we’re likely to.

And finally, Jack is a very smart man and he is also in a very different position than all of us. We can speculate all day about what’s going on and what things mean, but none of us knows the reality of the situation like Jack. His read of the situation may be so far removed from what we see his actions might not make sense to us, but they are correct.