Trump to warring GOP senators: I'm on your side

[DonViejo]

The president has managed to convince opposing senators that he shares their concerns on the troubled Obamacare repeal bill.

By BURGESS EVERETT and JOSH DAWSEY 06/28/2017 07:11 PM EDT

Rand Paul and Susan Collins are on opposite ends of the Republican Party when it comes to health care, yet somehow the two senators both left this week’s Obamacare repeal meetings with President Donald Trump thinking he’s on their side.

Paul wants to gut as much of Obamacare as possible and recalled after his one-on-one meeting that the president “realizes that moderates have gotten everything so far” on the health care talks. The centrist Collins, on the other hand, left a larger Tuesday gathering with the president sure that he still wants to make the bill’s health care offerings more robust, explaining that “he did leave me with that impression.”

It’s not possible for both senators to get what they want, but somehow Trump convinced everyone in the Senate on Wednesday that he’s siding with them. In the 70-minute meeting with the vast majority of the Senate’s GOP caucus after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pulled the party’s repeal bill, Trump spoke for only about 10 minutes and when he talked he "seemed to agree with everyone there," one person familiar with the discussions said.

“He understands the need to bring prices down, which I think is where Rand is at,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). “With Susan, he is showing the compassionate side for the working poor.”

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/28/trump-health-care-paul-collins-240065

[GusBob]

1. LOL I read the headline as "warning to"

works that way

[GusBob]

2. He was glad handling them which worries me

he seemed to be placating all of them as if he and Mitch had something up their sleeves

[WePurrsevere]

3. If they believe him...

I've got a bridge to sell them. The ONLY 'side' 45 is on, is his own.

Why in heck any semi intelligent and savvy adult would believe a person who has blatantly LIED repeatedly or trust someone who celebrates and pats them on the back one minute and then says the same bill he celebrated is "mean" a week later is beyond me.

I swear I'm going to need new temporomandibular (jaw) joints soon from all the dropping and clenching I've been doing lately.