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ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 12:58 PM Mar 2017

Watch Trump Seemingly Admit That He Knows His Health Care Bill Screws His Voters

link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/03/16/trump_to_tucker_carlson_i_know_that_ahca_hurts_rural_poor_voters.html



CARLSON: This bill has, as once of its centerpieces, tax cuts for investors that would primarily benefit people making over $250,000 a year, who've already done pretty well in the past 10 years, as you know. A Bloomberg analysis showed that counties that voted for you, middle class and working-class counties, would do far less well under this bill than the counties that voted for Hillary, the more affluent counties.

TRUMP: Yeah, Well I know that. I know—

CARLSON: It seems like well, maybe, this isn't consistent with the message of the last election.

TRUMP: A lot of things aren't consistent. But these are going to be negotiated. We're going to go to the Senate, we're going to see what happens in the Senate. Now, right now we have five or six senators who look like maybe they're not gonna, I'm talking about Republicans. Cause we're not going to get one Democrat to vote for us. Again, if this bill were perfect, if it was the greatest thing for Democrats and Republicans, we would not get one Democrat vote. They're going to vote against it. Because of selfish, because of stupidity, because it's politics. It's really bad for our country, what's going on. I mean, what's going on, for years, but it's really bad for our country. We will take care of our people, or I'm not signing it.

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Has he lost it? Not even keeping up the pretense? Faux News is getting conflicting signals!

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