In a freewheeling speech he apparently thought was not being broadcast, President Trump told a group of Republican lawmakers that “we blew it” on health care, mocked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Biden, and advanced at least two conspiracy theories — including one about wind farms.
In a freewheeling speech he apparently thought was not being televised, President Trump told a group of Republican lawmakers on Tuesday night that “we blew it” on health care, mocked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Biden, and advanced conspiracy theories about voter fraud and wind farms.
The president proceeded to sound off on a multitude of topics, including the GOP’s failure to reclaim health care from the Democrats. “You got to be a little bit more paranoid than you are,” the president told the crowd. “We have to be a little but careful because I don’t like the way the votes are being tallied. I don’t like it, and you don’t like it either. You just don’t want to say it because you’re afraid of the press. You’re afraid of the press.”
The president mocked Ocasio-Cortez and her so-called Green New Deal, the ambitious environmental plan to move the country toward zero carbon emissions that was defeated last week in the Senate.
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