The lady doth protest too much comes close, but this seems more targeted at a specific individual: for example, the Glorious Leader could be accused of protesting too much if they go on CNN to repeatedly deny all claims of famine before the reporter gets around to asking about it, but this doesn't seem applicable to an entire state-run ...
Is there a more broadly applicable expression for "doth protest too much"?
My first thought is protest too much which comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet. The line in Hamlet (Act 3 Scene 2) is: The lady doth protest too much, methinks The quote comes as a response to a question about a character in a play-within-the-play and, as one author wrote, ...the only criticism she has to offer is that the Player Queen's protestations of love and devotion sound too fulsome to be ...
Yahoo: Doth Protest Too Much? Trump’s Unprompted Cognitive Defense Keeps the Aging Story Alive
Doth Protest Too Much? Trump’s Unprompted Cognitive Defense Keeps the Aging Story Alive
MSN: The lady doth protest too much: MAGA wife spirals over gay rumors about her troll husband
Lady Benny Johnson doth protest too much. This past weekend, the MAGA bootlicker and his wife recognized Valentine’s Day with what they called a “rare date night.” Naturally, Johnson posted their ...
The lady doth protest too much: MAGA wife spirals over gay rumors about her troll husband
The DSA doth protest too much. A revived push to stop the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group from policing protests could spark a war between Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s progressive City Council allies and ...