A problem in my view, with attributing a strategy to the opposition, is that without hindsight, when Trump makes a weird/nonsensical/hyperbolic statement like t

A problem in my view, with attributing a strategy to the opposition, is that without hindsight, when Trump makes a weird/nonsensical/hyperbolic statement like this, you can't know if it's going to vanish without a trace or be doubled down on and become a huge thing. At the time, who could say if his opinion was based on anything, he would be proven right, anyone would take it seriously, etc.? The public and media don't know these things.