Wrap Up Smear.
"We call it the wrap-up smear. You want to talk about politics. It's a wrap-up smear. You smear somebody with falsehooded and then you merchandise it and then you write it and nell' say, see, it's reported in the press that this, this and this so they have that validation that the press reported the smear and then it's called a wrap-up smear." N. Pelosi.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4674689/user-clip-wrap-smear