Yeah, it’s a head scratcher. It makes me question what the best approach is to stories like this - it’s the second time in the space of a couple weeks that a story has broken, been jumped upon immediately to criticise “MAGA”, and then turned out to be falsified or fabricated, and it’s far from the first couple of times that it’s happened.
At the same time it’s obviously better to believe that they have happened as reported and be wrong occasionally.