Trump: We’ll Let Obamacare Fail And I’m Not Going To Own It, The GOP Isn’t Going To Own It [VIDEO]

NBC News reports:

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would let Obamacare “fail” in the aftermath of his party’s botched efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. “I think we’re probably in that position where we’ll let Obamacare fail,” the president said at the White House. “We’re not going to own it. I’m not going to own it. I can tell you, the Republicans are not going to own it.”

Once Obamacare collapses, Trump said “the Democrats are gonna come to us” and ask how to fix it, working with the GOP. Trump wouldn’t go so far as to call Republicans who opposed the Senate repeal and replace efforts “disloyal,” but he did say he was “very surprised” when two GOP senators yanked their support for the health care bill on Monday night, effectively killing it. “The way I look at it is in (2018), we’re going to have to get some more people elected…that are Republican,” Trump said.

"Republicans are not going to own it — we'll let Obamacare fail and then (Dems) will come to us" to fix, Trump says https://t.co/qnrSo7y0M6

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Letting Obamacare fail is a political strategy openly premised on inviting more human suffering

— Sam Stein (@samstein) July 18, 2017