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Originally Posted by octothorp
I think you've got a QB who can't help but fumble the football, and a coach who knows this, and so runs a whole offense based on fumbling the ball downfield, with the intention of having every play be sheer chaos that might result in 20-30 yards of positive yardage through fumbles and bobbles and kicks that the defense can't possibly anticipate. But sometimes the opposition scoops it up and runs it back for a touchdown; which is fine, because you don't need to play defense then, you just get the ball on offense again. But then it turns out that the coach actually didn't care about the football game at all; while everyone was freaking out about all the fumbles, he slipped back into the locker room and robbed everyone's lockers.
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This is both hilarious and rings pretty true... Who's the coach in this scenario though? Bannon? Because I don't have any reason to think he's some brilliant nefarious mastermind either. It could be the GOP establishment (wherein robbing lockers is them getting as much of their agenda enacted into law as quickly as possible), but they don't have any direct control over what Trump and his team do.
That all being said, Itse is right; the conspiracy theories being floated as plausible here are devious but they wouldn't take much actual skill to attempt. Giving the press false stories or planting them with suspected leakers isn't hard at all.