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Trump Gloats That Millions Could Lose Their Health Insurance In Disgusting Tweets

Donald Trump bragged about a ruling from a federal judge in Texas striking down the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional, saying congressional leaders should now focus on crafting a new healthcare law.

“As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster! Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions,” Trump tweeted.

“Mitch and Nancy, get it done!” Trump added, referring to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and expected incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

But that wasn’t it, Trump had to get in one more mean tweet, saying, “Wow, but not surprisingly, ObamaCare was just ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL by a highly respected judge in Texas. Great news for America!”

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, ruled Friday that ObamaCare’s individual mandate is unconstitutional and that because the mandate cannot be separated from the rest of the law, the rest of the law is also invalid.

The ruling, which came just one day before the deadline to sign up for coverage for next year, is almost certainly going to be appealed.

The reasoning of the ruling states that in 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the mandate to have coverage because of Congress’ power to tax. However, Congress removed the fine for failing to comply with the mandate last year, which, the judge argues, means the mandate is no longer a tax and therefore is unconstitutional.

The court case against ObamaCare was brought by 20 GOP-led states and featured prominently in Democrats’ campaigning in the midterm elections as they sought to cast Republicans as trying to take away voters’ health care.

The Trump administration argued that the pre-existing condition protections should be overturned despite the president’s promise that such coverage would not be impacted.

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