President Trump dared Rep. Mark Sanford to vote against the Obamacare repeal bill last week

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/USA Today

President Trump dared Rep. Mark Sanford to vote against the Obamacare repeal bill last week so he could put a primary challenger against the former governor in 2018, the congressman said.

According to Sanford, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney told him, "The president asked me to look you square in the eyes and to say that he hoped that you voted ‘no’ on this bill so he could run (a primary challenger) against you in 2018," according to The Post and Courier, which first reported the story. Mulvaney, a friend of Sanford's, was a South Carolina congressman before he joined the administration.

Sanford is a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, a group of roughly three dozen conservative lawmakers who said they’d vote against the House bill to repeal and replace Obamacare last week because they felt it didn’t go far enough.

The Freedom Caucus’ announcement that they were against the bill, coupled with a handful of moderate members who didn’t support the legislation for other reasons, ultimately forced President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to pull the bill from the floor. No Democrats were expected to vote for the legislation and Republicans could only lose about 20 votes for the bill to still pass.

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[fountainofyouth]

1. Americans got a great education, hopefully

In negotiating when you're way out of your league

[FakeNoose]

15. Yes but it's really Ryan's failure

I agree that Trump is out of his league, and he's a terrible negotiator.

However Paul Ryan wrote this healthcare/not bill, and he had 8 years to get the Senate and House to go along with it. He had majority in both houses of Congress, and he still couldn't make it happen. It's a terrible bill and it's not any kind of replacement for Obamacare either.

These Congressmen knew it too. If they had passed this bill they wouldn't be able to go home again.
Their home districts would have tarred and feathered them.

It's not even about healthcare, it's just boondoggles and tax cuts for the rich.

[OnDoutside]

16. Yes, Ryan would have come out far worse but for the clusterfeck that is Trump. There's just so

much going on, he's been able to slide under the radar.

[More_Cowbell]

2. So Presidential

What a jerk.

[Jonny Appleseed]

3. Doesn't this kinda defeat the purpose of elected representatives?

Trying to kick them out because they didn't fall in line like lemmings is kinda... not a democracy?

[erronis]

19. is kinda... not a democracy? Yeah, that's what people like you and me think.

But we're not zealots, true-believers, sheep following their "shepherd".

[keithbvadu2]

4. Tell him to 'take a hike'..... along the Appalachian Trail

Tell him to 'take a hike'..... along the Appalachian Trail

I hear it goes all the way to Argentina now.

[StevieM]

13. LOL, I was just thinking that. (eom)

[dgibby]

20. I was living in S.C. when all that happened.

Believe me, Trump doesn't scare Mark-he survived the wrath of Jenny and lived to be elected to Congress.

[Grassy Knoll]

5. I Dare Clump To Fuck a Light Socket, While Standing In A Bucket Of Water..

[LOL Lib]

9. LOLZ!

[cstanleytech]

12. Well I am sure Trump apperciates you for thinking that he has a high enough IQ

to know what a light socket looks like.

[JI7]

6. did he threaten to deport maria ?

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Enjoying Republican Concept of Freedom

Friendly fascism

[IronLionZion]

8. I bet his enemies list is longer than

Nixon's! And I bet he is one of the more hated presidents among every type of stakeholder, including his own party. He's not that conservative.

[murielm99]

11. He is one of the most hated men in the world.

Who is more hated? Putin? Maybe not.

[JI7]

14. i think Putin is more feared than hated

[IronLionZion]

18. Putin's enemies tend to die suddenly and unexpectedly

Because the lord works in mysterious ways.

I pray that doesn't start happening to Americans

[Leghorn21]

10. Well now, the thing about this story is, it shows just how cowed and terrified

Rep. Sanford was when he was threaten - oh wait

You know, for Sanford to tell this story publicly? Oh my! He could have just not mentioned it, right...hmmm...little dis tossed towards dft and his "Mick the Minion"...hmm...

[KingCharlemagne]

17. I would love to play poker with Trump. Bluffs only work if you use them sparingly. - nt

[kimbutgar]

21. If a cheater lying man can win re election he will easily win against any opponent chump puts

Up against him,

[titaniumsalute]

22. You never negotiate by creating fear...that is called bullying

A big kid tells a smaller kid that "I'll break your arm if you don't give me your lunch." So when the kid hands over his lunch that wasn't a great negotiation by the big kid. It was bullying.

Negotiating is a simple give and take where you can come to a reasonable point between two parties to move forward. Occasionally two parties agree to not agree and move on. That is a good negotiation.

But being an asshole isn't the way to negotiate and it will backfire (already did) on Drumpf.

[yurbud]

23. Baby Bush after 9/11 could say that. LBJ could say that...

a new president who is already an albatross to his own party can't.