“We will see if its true.” Not if we depend on the MSM. They like the sheriff and will not dig into this element of the story. And if they find out by accident, they will simply spike the facts. Alternate media is another story. But the audience is much smaller.
You sound like you live in Tucson. Nobody will know a thing here that “Red Star” and the local commie media outlets don't tell them. They love that hack Dupnik and nobody ever bemoans the politicization of this.
Even Fox news has been more horrible than usual, giving Democrats a free run and only running defensive gibberish from Republicans.