Dara Lind · Friday, February 17, 2017, 9:22 am
The most revealing line from Trump’s press conference wasn’t a lie, it was a philosophy.
President Donald Trump’s Thursday press conference was a cascade of lies, contradictions, and non sequiturs — so it might have been easy to miss, slipped into a dig at pro-Affordable Care Act protesters, a line that inadvertently reveals how Trump sees politics and government as a whole:
We’ve begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster, folks. It’s a disaster. You can say, ‘Oh, Obamacare!’ — They fill up our rallies with people that, you wonder how they get there, but they’re not the Republican people that the representatives are representing.
Trump’s purpose, presumably, was to hint (as other Republicans have asserted) that the protesters currently filling up town halls of Republican members of Congress to urge them to keep the Affordable Care Act don’t actually live in those members’ districts; that they’re bussed in and possibly paid.
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http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/17/14640376/trump-protests-obamacare
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