Google translate, even for seemingly common phrases, is not a great translation service. You can't say he should have worded it better, then ignore that the words you're saying he used wrongly are ones he never used, they are a computer programme's approximate translation of what he said in another language.
See above apparently in English and yes there are phrases in many languages that are similar. 'Turn down/reject', are emotive and lot different to I'm not ready to make a decision or even no comment. We'll have to disagree on this.