Nicolle Wallace Suggests Coronavirus ‘Silver Lining’ is that Trump’s ‘Sins… May Be Finally Catching Up With Him’

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Thursday that a “silver lining” to the coronavirus pandemic was that it might cause President Donald Trump’s “sins” to “catch up with him.”

“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 said. “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.”

“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 … we’ve been talking about for three years may be finally catching up with him,” Wallace added during a panel discussion.

Ron Klain, who served as President Barack Obama’s Ebola response coordinator from 2014 to 2015, said pro-Trump Americans should expect a resurgence of the virus later this year — and that it was misleading to suggest the infection “curve” would be smooth.

“When President Trump stands up… and says there will not be a second wave, he’s denying the inevitable. If you look at the history of epidemic, there’s always a second and third wave. This idea that it’s a smooth curve up and down is wrong,” Klain said. “When the disease comes back this fall, will President Trump try to tell us again, ‘No one saw it coming, who could have possibly foreseen that?’”

He added, “That argument, which is a false argument now, is going to look like a ridiculous argument in the fall, when he stood in the briefing room and tried to spar with his own health officials about the scientific inevitability that this virus will be back.”

CDC Director Robert Redfield told The Washington Post this week that there was “a possibility” of a coronavirus resurgence next winter, and that it could be “even more difficult than the one we just through” if it coincided with the seasonal flu epidemic. He attempted to walk the comments back at a Wednesday press conference after the president said the story was “fake news,” saying, “It doesn’t mean it’s going to be worse. It just means it’s more difficult because we have to distinguish between the two.”