Episodes
Wednesday Jul 19, 2017
Leid Stories—Obamacare Defeat Is Deeply Personal for An Obsessed Trump—07.19.17
Wednesday Jul 19, 2017
Wednesday Jul 19, 2017
On July 17 and 18, Donald Trump raged behind closed doors. The repeal-and-replace victory he was hoping to declare over Obamacare came to naught, after several Republicans backed away from two separate versions of a bill to win their support. They balked a full repeal-and-replace bill, and then turned against a repeal-only bill that was floated as a compromise.
Trump’s political defeat made, and is making, big news. But it’s the personal angle to the story that intrigues Leid Stories.
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