Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says President Donald Trump must think the American people are “gullible” to believe his health care pledge in his State of the Union speech.
Sanders spoke Tuesday night from Manchester, New Hampshire, not long after Trump wrapped up his address at the U.S. Capitol.
The Vermont senator seized on the president’s vow to protect the health insurance coverage of people with preexisting conditions.
“Really? How gullible do you think the American people are?” Sanders said, noting that the Trump administration and a Republican-led Congress came within one vote of repealing the Obama administration’s health care law. The law largely prevents private insurers from denying coverage for people with preexisting conditions.
