Kayleigh McEnany, a frequent Trump-backing guest on CNN, said on Wednesday that House Republicans’ Obamacare repeal bill “was intentionally put forth as being less conservative than what it will end up being” because President Donald Trump wants to negotiate its terms.
“This is why President Trump was elected by the American people, because he can negotiate,” McEnany said. “And I think this bill was intentionally put forth as being less conservative than what it will end up being because President Trump plans on giving carrots to various conservative entities.”
She cited the bill’s omission of a provision to sell insurance across state lines, something Trump promised on Tuesday would come in “phase 2 & 3.”
“Why wasn’t that put in there? President Trump has said that repeatedly on the campaign trail,” McEnany said. “It wasn’t put in there because President Trump plans on offering that as a gift to conservatives along with negotiating for prescription drug pricing.”
She said that Trump “has reason to be very confident” about the bill’s success, which has faced criticism from the all sides.
“I think if you look at his first tweet about this bill, the interesting word he used was negotiation,” McEnany said. “All of these conservative proposals I think were left out intentionally because these are going to be the carrots given to Republicans in exchange for them accepting tax credits.”
Aside from being total BS, does she think that broadcasting Trump’s ‘negotiating strategy’ makes everyone feel warm and fuzzy about getting screwed? Let insurance coverage for more money so the BILLIONAIRES get a tax break? Really?
If John Wayne Gacy was alive CNN would have him on to talk about the importance of clown vetting for your kid’s birthday party.
“It’s intentionally shitty!”
“I meant to do that – it was intentional!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU6eWw29jOYLet’s be clear: he doesn’t give a hoot what’s in the bill at all. As long as SOMETHING passes, he can go out and claim he’s the most productive ever. To hell with all the people kicked off their insurance; what, did they think this was about THEM or something?
I swear I read this thing a few times and I still don’t understand what the actual strategy is. This statement (along with the rest of it) makes no sense - he’s going to bring up buying ins. across state lines as some sort of “gift”??? He has ZERO interest in lowering drug prices and even if he did, he has no idea how to go about doing it.