Pro-Trump Sites Take Aim At Ryan As Obamacare Repeal Bill Hangs In Balance
By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MARCH 24, 2017, 12:54 PM EDT
Defenders of President Donald Trump were taking aim at House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) in the hours before Republicans were scheduled to vote Friday on their troubled Obamacare repeal bill.
Both Drudge Report and Breitbart News, conservative news sites that full-throatedly backed Trumps campaign, prominently criticized the American Health Care Act and distanced the White House from it on their homepages.
Pundit Ann Coulter brought her characteristic light touch to the conversation, telling Fox News' Tucker Carlson in a late Wednesday interview that Trump was following "Paul Ryan's priorities."
"I will not hold the Emperor God Trump responsible for this Obamacare-lite bill, but for Pete's sake," Coulter exclaimed.
House Sets Risky Health Vote: Pass It To Know Whats In It, read the splash at the Drudge Report Thursday morning, below a photograph of a sheepish-looking Ryan. The sub-headline was a not-so-subtle reference to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosis (D-CA) 2010 remark about Obamacare, which she said voters needed to weigh after the fog of the controversy over the law had dissipated. Her comment was seized on for for years by critics who said the law was overly complicated.
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