Watch Lyin' Trump Call Obamacare Repeal "So Easy" "Nobody can do that like me."
Inae Oh Mar. 24, 2017 4:31 PM
After a week of emergency meetings and last-minute attempts to unify their party, Republican leaders pulled their Obamacare repeal bill from the House floor Friday when it became clear they didn't have enough support to pass.
The decision is major defeat for President Donald Trump, who during the campaign bragged that Obamacare repeal would be "so easy."
"Together we're going to deliver real change that once again puts Americans first," Trump said at an October rally in Florida. "That begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as Obamacare…You're going to have such great health care, at a tiny fraction of the cost—and it's going to be so easy."
Lyin' Trump Trump reacts to failure: We were so close, it's all the Democrats' fault, and Obamacare is exploding
By Joan McCarter Friday Mar 24, 2017 · 4:20 PM CST
You might have expected popular vote loser Donald Trump to have a temper tantrum after the failure of Trumpcare, but he seemed pretty calm—albeit seriously deluded—during a brief press conference from the Oval Office.
He led off with the most ludicrous of lies: "We were very close." They weren't very close. They were at least 30 (and as much as 50) votes away. "Very close." Who's fault was this? "We had no Democrat support. We had no votes from the Democrats. They weren't going to give us a single vote, it's a difficult thing to do." So it's the Democrats' fault that the bill failed.
What's going to happen now? "I've been saying for the last year-and-a-half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let Obamacare explode, it is exploding right now."
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