confuse an issue

The most he could hope to do now was confuse the issue.

No point in getting into all that and just confusing the issue.

But it certainly could confuse the issue just by having a bunch of them.

The only additional thing to be done was to confuse the issue even further.

That player now tried the king, trying to confuse the issue, but it made no difference.

So there were no hospital records to confuse the issue.

They're just trying to confuse the issue when they ask what else he could have done about it.

Nothing else is going to come along to confuse the issue.

Nor am I going to let her confuse the real issue.

When your mind is made up facts only confuse the issue!