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Question the whole affair stinks of a setup.
Could you please help me to paraphrase this sentence:

the whole affair stinks of a setup.
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Default Re: the whole affair stinks of a setup.
The sentence is idiomatically correct. If you want to paraphrase it in more "Standard English", I would say:

"This business appears to have been contrived for the purpose of misleading you, or establishing your guilt."
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