"How did person C get this position? Oh he's just a fall guy for person D." will start to be believable to me when I see it happen in the real world at least on

"How did person C get this position? Oh he's just a fall guy for person D." will start to be believable to me when I see it happen in the real world at least once. So far it's only something I've seen in Game of Thrones and Japanese Animes.