It's so that the guy would take all the blame and "die" with it, drawing off as much of the heat as possible. From there they can make whatever public statement they want to sweep it under and the media would have to find a new foothold to attack.
As an actor? I've seen plenty of Chinese...
https://mangadex.org/thread/20582/1/#post_575933
My first haiku post,
oh look how time has progressed.
Not much has changed though.
(also hmmmm, 1819 comments....)
Official first comment: https://mangadex.org/thread/37525/1/#post_557106
Not true, reductio ad absurdum is a valid form of argument, the tricky part is executing it properly.
It's more common in the realm of mathematics, an easy example would be to prove the claim that there are infinite prime numbers.