CHUCK SCHUMER/GOP/HEALTHCARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump talked at length about healthcare claiming amazingly, at one point he will fight to protect patients with preexisting conditions. This president just lies, just lies. He’s in court right now trying to undo the protections for preexisting conditions, and at the same time he says he wants to do it and all the Republicans get up and cheer. His administration is working as hard as it can to take down the law that guarantees protections for preexisting conditions. The claim is not partly true. It’s not half true. It’s not misleading. It is flat, objectively, unequivocally false. Says on my notes, false. Let’s call it for what it is. It’s a lie. In three years, president Trump has done everything imaginable to undermine American’s healthcare. He’s even hoping to drag out the resolution of the lawsuit past the next election.
If president Trump were truly interested in shoring up protections for people with preexisting conditions, he’d drop this lawsuit now. Then he’d be doing something not just talking and having his actions totally contradict his words. Until the president drops his lawsuit, when he says he cares about Americans healthcare, he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth.”
-Chuck Schumer as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Impeachment Trial Final Day Transcript: February 5, 2020 Key Moments,” rev.com, February 5, 2020