Let me pose a scenario to you.
Under moderate but not suffocating early day pressure, Player A says they have a result on Player B. Player B gets very defensive and refuses to be of cooperation. Town cumulatively decides to have them both claim. Player A goes first, opening with a claim. Player B comes up with the following claim that fits Player A’s initial read claim perfectly:
Player B says their role is a role that cannot be proved, is rather weak, but could be of some use to town if true. To support this, they go back to previous posts which include a moderate flavor claim, and highlight some reluctance to join Player C’s wagon, on whom they claim to have used their unprovable role.
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Now ask yourself, does Player B sound like scum? Is it not far to convenient an escape? A weak town PR to give more cred than VT, evidence of not wanting to vote for someone being construed as having read them earlier, and mild flavor claim. It sounds good, until you realize where this all came from in the first place: this player just so happened to target THE EXACT SAME PERSON WHO DIED TO SCUM LAST NIGHT.
What are the odds! I mean really! Sure, SS made a good bit of noise, but come on! WW was seen targeting the dead person. Don’t give me that redirection stuff. The odds of a redirection on top of both these claims being correct is so slim.
I’m going to the most simple explanation: I read faust as different. He was: he has an investigative role. He saw WW targetting SS for the mafia kill. WW comes back with an explanation that cannot be proved.
To me, the odds of WW being scum are much larger than anyone else we go after, and I have yet to see a good argument for why not.