Trump's weirdest lie yet: "The Democrat plan would obliterate Obamacare"

"Which is good," he added. "But it'll leave the bad parts behind."

After the Republicans voted more than 60 times to repeal Obamacare, their president has a new lie to peddle: that they're its great defenders. It's a new variant of Poe's law: a position so ridiculous it's impossible to tell if it's comedy.

Shame there's nothing funny about it: the truth is that for Republicans, killing Obamacare (and Medicare more generally) remains the first order of business. Read the rest