CNN White House reporter Jeremy Diamond revealed on Friday that President Donald Trump's Senate working group on healthcare is another figment of the president's active imagination, saying no such thing exists.
"The president talked yesterday about four or five Republican senators he was putting together to try and advance this issue," Diamond said, "to try and get some kind of a replacement for ObamaCare if indeed this ruling striking down the entirety of the health care law is indeed upheld."
"But we spoke with several sources on Capitol Hill and at the White House," he continued. "It does not appear such a working group exists in such form or fashion." Diamond said he had spoken to the offices of named senators but none of them could "mention the existence of any kind of working group."
"One Republican senator told me specifically that it appears that the president was simply talking about individuals he has talked to about health care," Diamond said, raising further doubts about Trump's ability to discern reality from fantasy. "But as far as the existence of an actual working group to come up with a replacement, it doesn't appear that that is the case."
"And that is where we find this administration," Diamond added. "Pushing this position to fully invalidate ObamaCare through the courts without actually having any kind of a replacement ready to go."
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