Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that President Donald Trump had used a false quote to push a baseless claim about former President Barack Obama making money off of his signature health care legislation.
In a Truth Social post on Monday night, Trump shared the claim that Kennedy was “now publicly demanding that Barack Hussein Obama return $120 million that he allegedly earned through ownership related to ‘Obamacare.’”
“He allocated money under his own laws using taxpayer-generated prestige,” the fake quote said. “There’s nothing ethical or legal about this.”
On Tuesday, Kennedy told NOTUS that he never made the statement that Trump had attributed to him.
“Somebody told me there was something floating around on the internet about me accusing President Obama of stealing $120 million or something,” Kennedy insisted. “I didn’t say that. I don’t know the basis of it.”
During his late-night posting on Truth Social, Trump also shared a debunked claim that “election systems across the U.S. are found to have deleted millions of votes cast for President Trump.”
The White House responded by defending the president.
“The American people deserve free and fair elections — without them, we won’t have a country. President Trump and his entire team are committed to ensuring a U.S. election can never, ever be rigged again,” a statement from White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said.
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