{"id":39406,"date":"2018-10-10T14:39:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T21:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39406"},"modified":"2018-10-10T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:44:26","slug":"trumps-lie-riddled-medicare-for-all-op-ed-in-usa-today-is-obliterated-by-fact-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39406","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Lie-Riddled ‘Medicare-for-All’ Op-Ed in USA Today is Obliterated By Fact-Checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not content with the 280 characters that Twitter gives him to dissemble incoherently every day, Donald Trump put crayon to paper for an Op-Ed in USA Today<\/em><\/a><\/strong> – or more likely, his minders wrote it for him. In his defense, it’s hard to squeeze more lies<\/a><\/strong> into the finite confines of a tweet than he has already done. So having the luxury of nearly 5,000 characters to lie within must have given him a sense of freedom.<\/p>\n

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The subject of the editorial was Medicare-for-All and, needless to say, Trump is against it, just as he is against anything that actually helps people more than corporations. The lede for his falsehood-laden tirade says that “The Democrats want to outlaw private health care plans, taking away freedom to choose plans while letting anyone cross our border. We must win this.”<\/em> But while Trump’s opposition comes as no surprise, the rapid fire velocity of his blatant untruths was a little shocking, even for him. And that didn’t go unnoticed by the rest of the press that values honesty and factual reporting. Just a few of the media fact-checkers that weighed in on Trump’s bucket of bullpucky included these:<\/p>\n