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Donald Trump has actually stormed out of his own coronavirus relief press conference, after being fixed on a false claim about signing a law to assist veterans get health care.
The United States President was taking questions from press reporters at his golf club in New Jersey on Saturday about four executive orders signed for coronavirus relief when a reporter questioned his claim.
Mr Trump said: “We passed Veteran’s Option and Veteran’s Responsibility. They’ve been attempting to get that passed for decades and decades and years and no president’s ever had the ability to do it, and we got it done.”
However Paula Reid of CBS News asked him: “Why do you keep stating that you passed Veterans Option?”
Mr Trump tried to move onto questions from another reporter, but Ms Reid pressed him, asking: “You said that you passed Veterans Option. It was passed in 2014 … it was an incorrect declaration, sir.”
The Veteran’s Option law enables qualified veterans to be covered by the government for care supplied by medical professionals outside the primary veterans healthcare system.
The bipartisan act was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2014 and led by Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders and the late Republican Senator John McCain.
Mr Trump signed a various law in 2018 that expanded the Veterans Option programme. He has actually apparently made the false claim about Veterans Choice more than 150 times.
He responded to Ms Reid: “OK. Thank you quite, everybody,” prior to storming out as the pop song “YMCA” played.
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