Keeps lying about health care repeal
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 11:20 AM ET, Thu September 28, 2017
... "Health care didn't go down," Trump insisted. "We have the votes."
This is -- strictly speaking -- not true. It's also, loosely speaking, not true.
... Given that there are only 52 Republican senators, when you lose three of their votes, you don't have 50. You have 49.
It's why Senate Republican leaders called off the vote planned for this week. They don't have the votes ...
... There is zero factual evidence that .. "we have the votes" is even close to true. Ditto his repeated -- and still false -- claim that a) Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran is in the hospital (he isn't!) and b) that if Cochran could make it to DC to vote (he can!) then the votes for Graham-Cassidy would be there (they wouldn't!) ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/politics/trump-health-care/index.html
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