You joke with that, but as much as George Lucas tried to cover it up, there's still evidence that Jar-Jar was absolutely manipulating shit. It's just he went 1000% overboard on the "hiding in plain sight" thing.
The sinister Jar-Jar shit is actually really reminiscent of a character from the Foundation Series, called The Mule. Albeit the Mule was far scarier than Jar-Jar, and hid in plain sight under the disguise of a court jester, accompanying the protagonists as they searched for crucial, hidden information.