[Trump] told sens at dinner that they'd look like "dopes" if they didn't pass the bill:

[riversedge]

Oink!!




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Daniel Dale?Verified account @ddale8 34m34 minutes ago

Trump had no idea about Moran/Lee, told sens at dinner that they'd look like "dopes" if they didn't pass the bill:

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GOP health care bill collapses

Senate Republicans will shelve their bill to replace Obamacare, dealing a major blow to Trump's agenda.

By Burgess Everett and Jennifer Haberkorn

07/17/2017 07:53 PM EDT

Updated 07/18/2017 12:12 AM EDT


.............Failure to pass an Obamacare repeal could upend the entire Republican agenda. The party has spent nearly seven months on a health care overhaul, with hopes it would ease the path to tax reform. Now Trump and the GOP-led Congress are staring at an impending August recess with no major legislative achievements in hand.

At a dinner with GOP senators on Monday evening, Trump said the party would look like “dopes” if they couldn’t pass the bill after passing a repeal bill in 2015.

“If the Republicans have the House, Senate and the presidency and they can't pass this health care bill they are going to look weak,” Trump said, according to a source familiar with the meeting. “How can we not do this after promising it for years?”

Trump had no idea defections were coming Monday night, according to another White House official with knowledge of the meeting. "Why would we have a dinner like that if we knew people were going to drop out?" the official said.

Even before Lee and Moran's announcement, there were increasingly urgent signs that the GOP's 52-seat majority was too fragile to pass the bill, which would scale back Medicaid spending and Obamacare's insurance subsidies. The vote was already delayed because of McCain's surgery, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) had fumed that McConnell had committed a "breach of trust" in selling the bill to moderates....................

[tanyev]

1. Some of that Art of the Deal magic, huh?

[left-of-center2012]

2. Trump is so eloquent

His expensive college education is on display for the whole world to see.