Toño wrote:

It's a win-win scenario for the guy and the more publicity mileage he
gets out of it the more likely it is for him to be re-elected.

Unless the publicity points out that he's trying to *decrease* public safety
for the benefit of certain very specific commercial interests. If it can
then be shown that they've contributed to his campaign...

In that case, he'll have to claim that God wants him in office. That has a
history of working lately in the US.

- Andrew