Just because Platner has a history of stupid, doesn’t mean people can’t conspire against him. I would not be surprised if both the accusation, and the defense, were both true. But that doesn’t mean we should just swallow whatever a bias media spoon feeds us. Skepticism is always warranted.
Kind of like how even paranoid people have enemies.
McConnell is a Schrödinger zombie. He is neither dead or alive unless someone gets video of him.