If a person was a victim of a car not stopping while crossing in a crosswalk or with the light, I'd agree with you.
If a person, while acting unpredictably, like jay-walking a bicycle with no side reflectors in an area where you wouldn't expect to have someone cross the street, the person's state is important.
Can’t blame him for trying. It puts a seed of an alternate story into our minds. How do other streams of “alternative facts” get started? And many people want to believe that Big Medicine is keeping breakthroughs from us.