Looking here: https://loyce.club/trust/2021-10-02_Sat_06.08h/1016855.html
JG has 2323 people on his distrust list. So it's not like he just distrusts certain people.
The next question after is it retaliatory, is how many of those 35 (or 41 depending on how you want to look at the numbers) did he not even care about till they distrusted him.
Unless he chimes in, we may never know.

Of the 41 you listed personally I would not trust over 35 of them. The others I either feel neutral about or disagree.

Which goes back to two questions, once again just my opinion:
Is it retaliatory? <-- Probably
Does it matter? <-- Probably not.

More of my opinion:
I put people in my distrust list for a number of reasons, I don't do it a lot but when I do there usually is in my mind a good reason.
I can see several users here that put people in for reasons that I don't agree with. BUT: I agree with the distrust.

As of now unless JG chimes in I am going stop commenting. Why? Because if he does not then it shows that he does not care and is going to keep doing his thing. Which is 100% fine. If people want to ~ him that is also fine. But as of now looking at the list you gave of 41 people since I do agree with over 75% of it I am fine with trusting him.

Also going to see if I can spend some time this week when I am not working on a laptop with a small screen and counter some stuff that I 100% disagree with. It's just going to be easier on 2 big screens then 1 13" screen to flip though browser tabs.

-Dave