‘Obamacare Is Death’: In Fact-Free Speech Trump Says ‘For the Past 17 Years Obamacare Has Wreaked Havoc’

‘Obamacare Is Death. That’s the One That’s Death’ Trump Says, Falsely

What’s shocking is not that President Donald Trump just spent about ten minutes on national television lying to the American people about ObamaCare. What’s shocking is that he did it in a pre-written speech he read from a teleprompter, making clear the Trump administration is absolutely a fact-free zone.

“For the past 17 years, Obamacare has wreaked havoc on the lives of innocent, hard-working Americans,” the President, surrounded by supposed “ObamaCare victims” flown to the White House with your tax dollars, said on camera. 

MSNBC quickly offered a real-time fact check:

But it wasn’t the possible typo or verbal gaffe that made Trump’s speech one of the most lie-filled he’s made of late.

There were other obvious lies.

“The Senate bill protects coverage for pre-existing conditions,” Trump claimed. That’s impossible if only because as of this moment even GOP Senators do not know what bill they will be voting on, on Tuesday. But looking at the most-recent Senate bills, that claim has been debunked:

Democrats, the President said, “run out, they say, ‘death, death, death’ — well, Obamacare is death. That’s the one that’s death.” He went on to falsely say “it’s failing, so you won’t have it anyway.”

Trump also falsely claimed ObamaCare “is broken, it’s collapsing, it’s gone.”

The President said, also falsely: “Every pledge that Washington Democrats made to pass that bill turned out to be a lie; it was a big, fat, ugly lie.” That’s demonstrably false.

Trump, in the video above, says that one of the families behind him had to go on Medicaid. He doesn’t say that ObamaCare expanded Medicaid, and because of ObamaCare, they were allowed to.

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