Donald Trump has been bragging about “Veterans Choice” for at least a year. When Trump refers to Veteran’s Choice, he’s talking about the bill that allows veterans to bypass the VA system and to go a physician or healthcare network in their area and have the expenses paid out of the VA system. It is a great resource for veterans and one that was long overdue when it was passed … back when Obama was president. Yes, Obama signed the Veterans’ Access to Care [1] in August of 2014.
But that hasn’t stopped Trump from going around the country talking about getting the legislation passed himself and signing the bill. Indeed he will embellish it, saying “for years, people talked about getting it done, and no one ever got it done.” Rawstory says [2] Trump has made the claim 140 times. Today might be the last time.
Because today, during the “show” at Trump’s Bedminster resort, CBS’s Paula Reid specifically confronted Trump, asking him why he continues to take credit for Veterans’ Choice, and saying it is simply not true. A “falsehood,” is what she called it. Trump ended the press conference when pressed on it.
Now Paula Reid is being celebrated throughout the internet. One might say it is as much an indictment of the press, that it has taken this long. But we’ll simply focus on the positive for today. We might have more confrontations coming in the future, as this one is getting the praise it deserves.
Thank you Paula Reid. It’s reporters like you, Yamiche Alcindor, Kaitlan Collins and Weijia Jiang that we need during these insanely trashy and trying times. Keep challenging lies.pic.twitter.com/keluoP89Yo [3]
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) August 8, 2020 [4]
Exactly.
How long until Trump calls Paula Reid nasty?
— PM (@therealpeterm) August 8, 2020 [5]
We are sure it already happened.
I wish more reporters were like Paula Reid – she's got guts. Notice the rage on the narcissist's face when she calls him out on his lies.
Then #Bonespurs [6] runs back to his #Bunker [7]. https://t.co/3JMmJqEnRR [8]
— The Same Person 🌊 (@John_F_Austin) August 8, 2020 [9]
REMINDER: The guy who is trying to defund Social Security and Medicare with his Payroll Tax "executive order" had NOTHING TO DO with Veterans Choice, as Paula Reid pointed out.
🚨It was President Obama and Joe Biden, in 2014.🚨
TELL YOUR FRIENDS.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 8, 2020 [10]
Yes, do tell your friends because right now this man wants to take credit for the water off the Long Island shore.
And here is how the MAGA heads interpreted what happened in the press conference, nothing about the lie Trump told, or why he couldn’t simply answer the question, only scorn for ruining the press conference:
Meet Paula Reid, the triggered selfish journalist who refused to stop asking questions and ultimately ended the press conference. pic.twitter.com/DanBHw5nEd [11]
— Red Nation Rising (@RedNationRising) August 8, 2020 [12]
If your a journalist who wanted to ask POTUS a question but did not get a chance, thank Paula Reid of CBS for ruining your opportunity.
— Red Nation Rising (@RedNationRising) August 8, 2020 [13]
Ha! So Reid was the one who walked out? We are supposed to be angry with Paula Reid because Trump didn’t want to answer the question?
PROPAGANDA SESSION
Trump’s “press conference” today was nothing more than a taxpayer-funded campaign rally in which Trump lied repeatedly & trashed Democrats. And when Paula Reid called out one of Trump’s lies, the narcissist had a rage fit & stormed off!#TrumpMeltdown [14]
— MURRAY 🗽 (@murray_nyc) August 8, 2020 [15]
Paula Reid emasculated Trump and he hobbled off like the coward he is.
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) August 8, 2020 [16]
Nice. Yes, “emasculated” is the right word, along with “coward.”
Kudos to CBS’s Paula Reid. She pushed back on Donald Trump’s lies and threw him off his game. He then left in a big huff. The trick to taking him down is just to forcefully ask follow-up questions. And then he melts away like snow. pic.twitter.com/L9zFq4YOl4 [17]
— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) August 8, 2020 [18]
Thank you Paula Reid for doing what most journalists have NOT done–making the greatest liar in the History of American Politics accountable for the lies that flow effortlessly out of his diseased mouth. How grateful his rally audience, America's privileged 1%, was w/applause. https://t.co/Ra4XBSGpbO [19]
— Steve Carvalho (@SteveCarvalho9) August 8, 2020 [20]
Exactly.
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Peace, y’all
Jason
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