Trump talks replacing Obamacare, reiterates unsubstantiated voter fraud claims
President Donald Trump secretly advised congressional pioneers Monday he needs to push ahead with a yearning motivation, including to nullify and supplant Obamacare and to pass enactment supporting the nation's framework. Be that as it may, he likewise raised two past grievances - specifying his initiation swarm estimate and repeating an unconfirmed case that 3-5 million unlawful votes cost him the prevalent vote, as per two sources acquainted with the meeting.
The meeting - with the main eight House and Senate pioneers from both sides - was for the most part social, scarcely addressed the issues and didn't really expound about Trump's arrangement inclinations, Democratic Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" not long after the meeting.
"This is to a great extent an open door for him to become acquainted with individuals from the administration that he didn't definitely know," Hoyer said.
Trump told the congressional pioneers - including the Democrats - that it's his goal to give "something that is better and more moderate" than Obamacare, Republican Sen. John Cornyn stated, including that the Democratic pioneers pushed back when he said that.
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Trump likewise told the congressional pioneers that in the letter that previous President Barack Obama left for him, Obama said he could bolster a bill brought by Trump in the event that it enhanced his mark local strategy.
In Hoyer's retelling, Obama said he would bolster Trump-sponsored social insurance enactment in the event that it gave "more noteworthy get to, more noteworthy human services affirmation to individuals, more prominent quality and cut expenses down."
"Yes, President Obama said that, and we concur with that. What's more, we told Trump that we concurred with that. However, the truth is, we haven't seen anything that does that," Hoyer included.
Hoyer told CNN's Burnett that Trump likewise raised his introduction swarm estimate at the social event.
"He didn't change his perspective on the group measure," Hoyer said. "It was from his point of view a substantial group ... it was clear this was still at the forefront of his thoughts."
Trump likewise repeated the unverified case that 3-5 million unlawful votes cost him the famous vote, as indicated by two sources acquainted with the meeting.
The President has already made this case, tweeting in November: "notwithstanding winning the Electoral College in an avalanche, I won the prominent vote in the event that you deduct the a large number of individuals who voted wrongfully."
There has been no confirmation of across the board voter misrepresentation, and at the time, many guessed Trump was referencing a progression of fake stories on connivance sites that said he really beat Hillary Clinton in the well known vote tally.
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