Sunday, April 2, 2017

Trump lies about being the one who halted the Trumpcare vote

In an interview with the Financial Times, Donald Trump claimed he was the one who halted the vote on Trumpcare because he doesn't want to lose. Trump said:

I didn’t want to take a vote. It was my idea. I said why should I take a vote.

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Yeah, I don’t lose. I don’t like to lose. But that wasn’t a definitive day. They are negotiating as we speak. I don’t know if you know. They are negotiating right now. There was no reason to take a vote. I said, ‘Don’t take a vote,’ and we will see what happens.

But that's actually a big lie. It was Trump who demanded a vote the next day after the first time it was postponed for a lack of Republican votes to pass Trumpcare.

The first time the vote was postponed was a Thursday. Trump demanded a vote for the next day.

In fact, Trump met TWICE with Republicans who were against Trumpcare to ask them to vote. He even threatened some Republicans with going against them in the primaries if they didn't vote in favor of Trumpcare.

The vote was postponed because Paul Ryan told Trump the day the vot was going to take place that he didn't have enough votes to pase it in the House of Representatives. And he warned him that if the bill failed in the House, it would be a bigger political defeat that withdrawing the bill.

But now Trump claims he didn't want Trumpcare to be voted. Yeah right.


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