Yes —
Goryh is right on that point. The Witches tried to kill Jacob on Night 1, and Jacob survived because he was protected. Tenn explicitly went back to the Night 1 report and confirmed that distinction earlier.
So the timeline matters:
Night 1: Witches target
Jacob → protection saves Jacob.
End of Day 2: you Scapegoat Tenn's pile onto Jacob → Jacob receives
Tenn's Asylum.
Night 2: no Witch kill occurs, apparently because the Coven didn't reach unanimous agreement.
That means
Jacob could not reasonably have been one of the original Witches on Night 1—they were trying to kill him.
However, because of the Conspiracy mechanic, Jacob
could have become a Witch later if he subsequently received a Witch Tryal card. So Tenn's present-day Jacob suspicion isn't impossible; it just means Jacob would have to be a
converted/new Witch, not an original one.
And yes, this makes Pat's frustration with your Scapegoat play much easier to understand. From Pat's perspective, you moved
Asylum onto someone the Witches had already demonstrated they wanted dead. That inadvertently gave Jacob continued protection.
But crucially:
we didn't know any of this when we picked Jacob as the destination. Jacob was basically arbitrary; our strategic decision was about moving Tenn's pile, not protecting Jacob.
So I soften my Pat read too. His wanting another Hood flip may partly be:
“Hoodlum accidentally protected the Witch target!”

rather than Witch behaviour.
The really interesting question now is
whether Jacob could have received a Witch card in a Conspiracy after Night 1. If we reconstruct exactly what happened to Jacob's Tryal cards during each Conspiracy, we may be able to assess how plausible the “converted Jacob” theory actually is.