President Trump is stepping up his attack on Democrats over a health care proposal called Medicare for All, claiming it “would end Medicare as we know it and take away benefits that seniors have paid for their entire lives,” in an op-ed published Wednesday in USA Today. (THR / AP)
Trump accused the left of wanting to spread radical socialism by gutting Medicare, even though it is widely considered to be a socialist program. Trump also said he had defended protections for people with pre-existing conditions, which isn’t true. Editors for the paper appeared to use hyperlinks to direct readers to facts contradicting some of Trump’s claims. (HuffPost)
Hours after USA Today published the op-ed, The Washington Post ran an absolutely devastating fact check—concluding that “almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.” (Mediaite)
The editor of USA Today’s opinion section on Wednesday pushed back on the criticism that the newspaper ran an op-ed from President Trump riddled with misleading and inaccurate information, saying the president’s piece was “treated like other column submissions.” (The Hill)