Trump Says POTUS Should Apologize For O’Care, Trots Out Bill Clinton Impression (VIDEO)

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, in Henderson, Nev. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Donald Trump performed a dramatic re-reading of Bill Clinton’s criticisms of Obamacare at a Wednesday rally before suggesting President Barack Obama apologize for his signature healthcare reform law.

“Bill Clinton, yesterday! Ooh, they’re so angry at him,” Trump said at a rally in Henderson, Nevada, to laughter from the crowd. “They scolded him yesterday! He was scolded.”

The former President called the income gaps in Obamacare coverage “the craziest thing in the world” on Monday at a rally for his wife Hillary Clinton’s campaign. But he walked back what he said were misinterpretations of his remarks at a Tuesday campaign event, lauding the program for expanding coverage to 90 percent of the American public.

“Did everybody hear what happened?” Trump goaded. “Bill Clinton torched President Obama’s signature legislation!”

He then launched into a dramatic re-reading of the former President’s remarks.

“He said ‘It’s just a crazy system!,’” Trump said, gesticulating wildly while glancing at a teleprompter. “And that’s the way he said it! ‘It’s the craziest thing in the whole world!’ Then he went on to say, ‘Well, people out there are busting it’ — true! — ‘they’re working like hell, they’re busting it. Sometimes 60 hours a week, and wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half!’”

“This is Bill Clinton,” Trump continued. “’The people are getting killed,’ he said,’in this deal.’ And small businesspeople and individuals who make just a bit too much money to get these subsidies, you know what happens? They don’t get anything! They get nothing! Clinton added, ‘It doesn’t make any sense.’ The insurance model just doesn’t work!”

“So you know,” Trump said, in what was not a particularly self-aware moment, “they’re always telling me, if you say something, just apologize. Just apologize. I think that President Obama should apologize for Obamacare.”

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