Rick Scott’s Company Committed Historic Medicare Fraud. He Will Now Lead Trump’s Health-Care Push.
By Matt Stieb
... moreRick Scott’s Company Committed Historic Medicare Fraud. He Will Now Lead Trump’s Health-Care Push.
By Matt Stieb
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If the Trump administration has a domestic policy doctrine at this point, it could be described as the following practice: the appointment of industry insiders to Cabinet-level positions in order to deregulate or otherwise surgically dismantle the protections of a given department.
In this spirit comes the announcement that Florida Senator Rick Scott intends to deliver on President Trump’s promise that the GOP “will soon be known as the party of health care.” On Thursday, Trump told reporters that Scott, and fellow Republican Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, will lead the party’s push on health-care reform.“They are going to come up with something really spectacular,” the president said.
If by spectacular, he means a cand... less
ow Donald Trump Reportedly Inflated His Net Worth to Lenders
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... moreow Donald Trump Reportedly Inflated His Net Worth to Lenders
By Matt Stieb
Donald Trump in 2013. Photo: Susan Watts/NY Daily News via Getty Images
Whether he’s pretending to be his own PR person, questioning the accuracyof a damning quote caught on tape, or exaggerating the middle-class benefits of corporate tax cuts, Donald Trump has always had a loose relationship with the truth. According to a new report from the Washington Post, Trump’s shaky connection to factual reality also applied to business deals, in which the real-estate mogul — already known for stiffing on the bill— misreported his assets to convince lenders to provide him with funding.
According to the Post, if Trump wanted to impress a business partner or journalist, he would send over a folder called the “Statements of Financial Condition,” documents that ran up to 20 pages and were frequently packed with mistakes. In his 2011 version of the doc, ... less
