I’m inclined to believe that, but also wary of traps like that.
Deep State technique: Put out something false that the conservatives will latch onto, then expose it as false. Use that to try to discredit everything else about the issue that the conservatives are saying.
I think Hogg could be an actor. But he could also be just a student who is more than happy to play along with the leftwing narrative. There are useful idiots everywhere. 90% of the people you see on tv, whether actors or “real” people, would do anything or say anything to get on tv. Sad.
My friends gunned down? No tears, no shaking? Parents with no tears?
"Parents" on national TV after burying a child and they are composed and poised? It does not follow. I have known people who had to bury their children. They go between crying hysterically and catatonic. No laughing, no joking, no rational talk. They are not "over it", ever!