MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace, who used to work in the George W. Bush administration and is a never-Trumper, and possibly a Dem, has said that the “silver lining” of this virus that has decimated the lives and livelihoods of the American people is that it could harm Trump’s Presidency.
According to Fox News:
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace suggested on Thursday that there was a “silver lining” in the devastation the country has faced from the coronavirus outbreak, which is that it will damage President Trump.
“There is something both tragic, and pathetic, and ironic about the fact that it took a, you know, color-blind, gender-blind, you know, state-line-blind virus to sort of have all of the president’s sins from his first three years catch up with him,” Wallace began during a panel discussion. “You can’t stand there and lie. You can’t contradict your scientists because they’re the ones that stand at 66 and 68 percent public trust, not you. He’s down at 38 percent. Pence is lower than him.”
She continued, “I mean, he needs those people whether he likes what they say or not and I wonder what you think about whether or not there’s some silver lining there, that some of the things that, that we’ve been talking about for three years may be finally catching up with him?”
Nicolle Wallace Sees ‘Silver Lining’ to Deadly Virus—It’s Hurting Trump https://t.co/Lmwgff2FBu #CoronavirusOutbreak @NicolleDWallace @RonaldKlain #PresidentTrump @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/dYs6w0RFwS
— Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) April 23, 2020
Ron Klain, the former Ebola czar under President Obama and a Biden loyalist, responded by saying a leader would “tell the American people the truth,” touting Obama’s honesty to the country of the “bad news” that was ahead during the Ebola outbreak.
The segment also features the supposition that President Trump will claim that no one saw the resurfacing of the virus when it comes back in the fall. The speculative nature of their criticism of the President is concerning and it will be interesting to see what tactics they take if the American people reelect him in the fall.
