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The key being the call for universal healthcare.

Saying “”belives everyone should have health care” and believing in “Universial healthcare” are two different things. One is a statement of personal believe the other a poltiical policy statement.

But I know, hoping for campaign bots to be honest and intellectually accurate is a vain hope.

The key being the call for universal healthcare.

That's gonna happen anyway. No matter WHO wins. Already baked into the cake with Obamacare.

I see people repeating that Trump said something about Universal Healthcare (or that Mika's question mentioned Universal Healthcare). He did not and the question did not. But people like to put words in his mouth for their benefit I suppose. There are a lot of legit knocks on Trump. Being disingenuous by using this story only hurts other legitimate criticisms.

I posted this before on one of the numerous threads ripping Trump for this. I guess I'll post it again:

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C'mon. Pretty generic question. I saw it live. Trump has said hedge fund managers should pay higher taxes and what candidate in their right mind wouldn't say that everybody who needs health care should be able to get it? Does Cruz or some other candidate really support people who need health care not getting it?

"That candidate is considered a political outsider by all of the pundits," she said.

True of Trump. Is there a problem with this?

"He's tapping into the anger of voters, delivers a populist message.

I concur. Still no problem.

"He believes everyone in the country should have healthcare

Does your candidate believe some Americans should NOT have health care? If not, who?

[and] he advocates for hedge fund managers to pay higher taxes," Brzezinski added.

Ok. This one, I'm stupid on. I don't know what situation hedge fund managers are in now and whether they are or aren't already being treated like anybody else with the current tax code. So, you get me on this one if it is some sort of bad, socialist, Bernie Sanders-like thing.

"He is drawing thousands of people at his rallies and bringing in a lot of new voters into the political process. Who am I describing?"

Well heck I guess he MUST be a socialist because he is drawing thousands to his rallies.

Maybe had Mika added "He supports taxing upper-income Americans to rates of 85% and beyond, Trump could have recognized a difference. Maybe had Mika mentioned "He wants everybody to have a FREE public college education", Trump could have recognized the difference.

So unless Trump's stance on hedge fund managers is some big pinko-commie socialist liberal idea, I see absolutely NOTHING you can criticize him for here. If hedge fund manager taxation is a big socialist idea, then I concede the hit. Otherwise this is a BS setup put out there to make Trump look bad and get all of those who disagree with him to push it viral. Try again.