Trump: Consumers will benefit from sinking oil prices amid coronavirus outbreak

Published March 9, 2020 4:03pm ET



President Trump said consumers will benefit from plummeting oil prices as the markets take a hit amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Reacting to news of declining oil prices on Twitter, Trump blamed the “Fake News” media and foreign shale oil disputes for the Dow Jones’s precipitous decline.

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