[Lazamataz]

They may have nothing on him, but if it looks like too similar a payoff to the pol’s next generation they could muddy the waters as far as appearances go, even without directly incriminating info.

Muddying the waters and conflating things that are not related, is the stock-in-trade of the News Misleadia.

Why, just today, they claimed a 500% increase in 'ghost guns' at crime scenes. However, they conflated defaced firearms with the serial numbers removed, with privately-made firearms. They lumped in the defaced firearms, to lie about privately-made ones.

[9YearLurker]

Yep. And all too often it works with all too many people.