“...projection...”
It is actually far worse than projection - it is a deliberate Alinsky tactic to create chaos and confusion.
Stonehouse nailed it. What is ironic is that this is an identical behavior to that exhibited by the ideological forebearers of today’s media, Pravda. Pravda, back in the day, would routinely accuse the US of funding different terrorist groups, cheating on arms control treaties, etc., etc. Any reasonably astute observer would immediately know what the Soviets were up to...and the louder they complained, the more we needed to be concerned.