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The Lies Of The Rich, Famous And The President Of The United States Of America
Donald Trump has threatened from the outset to halt payments to health in- surance companies which are crucial to making Obamacare work. A court decision Tues- day could disarm him.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday that attorney generals from 17 states and the District of Columbia may pursue the Trump adminis- tration’s stalled appeal of a lawsuit alleging the federal government has been making these payments illegally.
The court agreed with the state officials that there’s rea- son to believe the Trump ad- ministration isn’t adequately acting on behalf of states. The Trump administration and House Republicans opposed the states’ effort.
Trump has threatened to withhold payments to health insurance companies that serve the lowest-income en- rollees on the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges even before taking office.
The fallout from pulling Obamacare payments to in- surers would be significant. It could cause skittish insurers
that have already lost billions in the Obamacare markets to bolt for the exits. At the very least, insurers would hike premiums in 2018 to cover the lost payments.
On Monday, Trump re- newed this threat on Twitter in the aftermath of the Senate Republican failure to repeal the law last week.
President Trump and his son, Don, Jr.
On Monday, the Wash- i n g ton Post reported that President Donald Trump dictated his son’s account of his meeting with a Russian lawyer, stepping into the planned re- sponse to the reports of the meeting.
The report states that Don- ald Trump Jr. and the Trump team had initially planned to tell the truth about the meeting and state that Trump Jr. had gone to seek out damaging information against Hillary Clinton.
The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a state- ment to get ahead of the story.
But within hours, at the President’s direction, the plan changed.
And, the President dic- tated a misleading statement about the nature of the meeting his son, Donald, Jr., his son-
in-law, Jared Kushner, and his then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort had with a group of Russians during the campaign.
This despite the fact that, on June 16, Trump lawyer, Jay Sekulow insisted, “I do want to be clear, that the President was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement.”
However at Tuesday’s press conference, The White House acknowledged that President Trump worked on the dis- puted statement about his son's meeting with the Russian lawyer, in an apparent break with comments made by the lawyers defending the Presi- dent’s involvement.
What’s more, the Post re- ported, advisers in the White House are worried that Trump will continue to step into the investigation.
Trump’s Communications Director Lasted 10 Days; And To Top It Off....
Anthony Scaramucci lasted 10 days as the White House com- munications director. John F. Kelly, President Trump’s new chief of staff, firmly asserted his authority on his first day in the White House on Monday, telling aides he will impose military discipline on a free-for-all West Wing.
Anthony Scaramucci,
the recently fired White House communications director: was listed in the new Harvard Law School alumni directory that he was dead.
Harvard alums received the directory in the mail this week and in it, Scaramucci, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1989, had an asterisk next to his name — indicating
that he had died.
The school apologized to the
53-year-old Wall Street finan- cier, and said the error will be corrected in subsequent edi- tions.”
The directory, however, is only published every five years. And, if being fired wasn’t enough, his pregnant wife re- portedly filed for divorce this
week, too.
Court Trumps Trump With Ruling About Obamacare
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