Don't need a virus to bring trump down. He's doing that to himself.
It's not being weaponized because it was weaponized from it's inception. And I seriously doubt this is to bring down Trump considering he is as obedient as the rest of him to his masters.
Pff whatever
Let's just blame trump for cold temperatures in winter while we are at it
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The only way this story can backfire on him is if he goes contrarian and tries to downplay the story, while anti trumpers do the contrary
Because when shit is going to turn bad, then yeah, he'll be accused of vastly underestimating the threat, of incompetence
That's a risk yeah
On the flip side if he goes all in like "Ok this is super bad" then markets will factor that and he'll be blamed for cracking the match that started the whole dumpster fire
And that's the truth, it's bad, the economic ripple effect is going to hit no matter what, and the central banks can't print their way out of this one. Production lines stop when fucking autoparts are missing, duh
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Trump should stay away of this as much as he can, this is a lose lose situation and there's objectively nothing he can do about it aside from declaring martial law and state of emergency... Just default on the good old "competent people and institutions are working on it, and we're following the situation very closely, next question please" type of political stance. Just stay vague and distant, don't downplay, don't overplay
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