No, coronavirus panic wasn’t drummed up to damage Trump

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If the coronavirus pandemic was created to damage President Trump, that would be a pretty impressive level of coordination on the part of world leaders. You mean to tell me that the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic just to damage the reelection chances of the president of the United States? And Italy, in basically shutting down its entire country, played along? That would be a conspiracy theory worthy of Jacob Wohl.

Apparently, this line of thinking is also in character for Jerry Falwell Jr., the Liberty University president who appeared on Fox & Friends on Friday morning to assure everyone that the coronavirus is not worth the hype.

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