It does kind of seem like he keeps raising the stakes in order to distract everyone from his problems, right?
At first, Iran charged the U.S. with fabricating the plot in order to distract from our economic woes.
A tactic Cameron's chief strategist employs of throwing out a controversy in order to distract from the real story, in this case Google's taxes.
The Chinese government is fabricating almost 490m social media posts a year in order to distract the public from criticising or questioning its rule, according to a study.
On the island, the older sister tells her younger sister stories in order to distract her: "Once upon a time," she always says.
Systematically, they told reporters that she was behind sending her husband on the mission, a "junket," as Cheney calls it, in order to distract and discredit.
The Labor leader, Bill Shorten, said that Liberals were "attacking the messenger, attacking statutory office-holders" in order to distract from division in the Liberal party.
Reynberg told me that the secret police planted provocateurs in Shereshevsky's audiences, some of whom heckled and whistled at him in order to distract him from his routine.
Yet Masha comes to wonder whether Alyosha might have deliberately injured himself in order to distract his family from their own troubles.
Reformed Characters typically become all about the work, throwing themselves into it in order to distract themselves from the demons they once found so deliciously irresistible.
"We found out today that he is going to try to divide us in order to distract us," Mr. Ryan told the crowd.
