I think the timing on that worked in his favor. People were too high on winning leading up to the release to care about the leaks, and then about the time for release Trump slowed down (and the Gaza thing sprung up) which took a lot of that train away so people could begin talking about the game a lot (giving it a lot of free marketing).

Also American politics is European politics more than European elections and governments are, they are that obsessed with us, so that wouldn't effect it.