Here's the latest recasting of the "friend" commentary:
Now the Guardian reporter, Anna Betts, is calling him an "associate who played video games with the suspected gunman." And apparently, Tyler "expressed sentiments to him that were critical of Donald Trump," which I guess led to the "associate's" statements that he was "pretty left on everything" and was "the only member of the family that was, like, really leftist." In Dixie Utah, I could see anyone critical of Trump being viewed as leftist, even if the concern came from the "farther right" (e.g., was he bitching about Trump's support of Israel or something like that?).
What a fucking failure of reporting, and what utter bullshit from this "associate." The Guardian, for its part, is doing a truly shitty job of owning this. They should have been prominently and clearly retracting the "really leftist" bullshit that they unleashed, but it's all embedded "oops, that might not have been 100% accurate" shit in the story.