In a DND campaign my DM let me get poly married to a Circus worker and Pharmaceutical CEO who I had successfully seduced as part of an investigation plot line

Calling it a distraction isn't accurate nor inaccurate. Steve Bannon laid the groundwork for Trumps play book in a strategy known as "Flooding the Zone" which is doing all your horrible shit as fast as possible so its hard for the average people to keep up with every action taken