Trump Offers Strange Support For O’Care Repeal: ‘Dems Scream Death’

United States President Donald J. Trump makes remarks to the press prior to having lunch with four veterans of Afghanistan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. In his ... United States President Donald J. Trump makes remarks to the press prior to having lunch with four veterans of Afghanistan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. In his remarks the President said he was "disappointed" about the GOP failure to pass a healthcare bill and said his plan was to "let Obamacare fail." Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP - NO WIRE SERVICE - Photo by: Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump attempted to give a boost to Republicans’ stalled Obamacare repeal effort Wednesday.

But he seemed to acknowledge that his party had lost the messaging battle on health care to Democrats, who the President said “scream death,” presumably referring to Democrats’ framing of Republicans’ proposed overhaul of the health care system.

Trump has invited all Republican senators to the White House for lunch to try to rally support for the repeal effort.

Despite his complaints about the legislative process, the President has largely removed himself from the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and make deep, lasting cuts to Medicaid.

Speaking to reporters after it was clear the latest repeal effort would fail to gain sufficient votes to be considered on the Senate floor, Trump pinned blame on Democrats and implied he would sabotage Obamacare.

“It will be a lot easier and I think we’re probably in that position where we’ll just let Obamacare fail,” he said. “We’re not going to own it. I’m not going to own it. I can tell you Republicans are not going to own it.”

And he stumbled through the strange political balancing act of criticizing the Republican senators who voted against the effort, saying that they would “have to explain why they did, and I’m sure they have very fine reasons, but we have to get more Republicans elected because we have to get it done.”

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  1. Two scoops of ice cream for Murkowski, Portman, Collins, and Capito! That will be a key part of the successful deal.

  2. Either raving about eaten strawberries of roaming around the table with a baseball bat seem plausible.

  3. There will soon be a significant number of Republican Senators as fed up with this tool as the Intelligence Community.

  4. Well, on the plus side, they get free meal out of it. On the down side, I don’t think I’d have an appetite with that walking garbage heap at my table.

  5. I wish I could agree with you. Or, rather, you may well be right, but few of them will let the truth slip out. After all, Republicans are good at ignoring truth.

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