>Crocodile tears over the simulations he planned and executed
This.
A lot of asleep people look at this IN HINDSIGHT.
I.E. "You're saying they faked a school shooting and now are pretending to cry about it? Monster!"
The thing is, what they OUGHT to be doing is to look at it from the position of the people planning these things:
"How do we disarm people? Hey, I know, let's do some simulated events and then pretend like they're real, in order to scare people into giving up their guns."
THUS the crying was always going to be baked in to the performance from the start.
People just see the aftermath, and think what they saw was real, so "how dare you question it!"