Someone connected to the shooting said something that's inconvenient for him politically. So Alex has just decided to heavily suggest that he's an actor and he must be in on the whole thing, planted there to say that the Patsy was a Trump supporter. That's really all Alex is responding to. There's nothing bigger behind this than the fact that the roommate said that the shooter was a Trump supporter, and that's threatening to Alex. So Alex has to invalidate it. That's it.