This is what makes her tweet about modern lynching almost immediately after the attack was reported so damning. She knew he was friends with her and was well aware of this lynching bill she introduced last June and yet she showed ZERO skepticism at all about it.4stringAg said:
they may not have put him up to it but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that someone like Harris knew about it and thus knew it was a hoax all along.
How on earth could she not suspect a hoax unless she's a complete and utter moron. OK, I might have stumbled onto a possible defense for her here.