When a person says ONE thing to deflect attention from something ELSE [closed]

How about misdirection, deflection, or obfuscation?

OD:

misdirection: [mass noun] the action or process of directing someone to the wrong place or in the wrong direction: ‘the deliberate misdirection that had put me off the track’

deflection: [mass noun] the action or process of deflecting or being deflected

deflect: cause (someone) to deviate from an intended purpose

obfuscation: [mass noun] the action of making something obscure, unclear, or unintelligible: ‘when confronted with sharp questions they resort to obfuscation’

We've seen a lot of misdirection, deflection, and obfuscation in our political discourse of late.

You could call it:

Creating a Distraction

a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else.

And from Merriam Webster:

: something that makes it difficult to think or pay attention

: something that amuses or entertains you so that you do not think about problems, work, etc

The verb distract,

"He distracted attention from the problem by talking about the weather."