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Filed under "lies and damn lies"
A CNN editor scolded liberals this week for spreading a conspiracy alleging the new Republican health care bill would make rape and other sexual assaults a pre-existing condition.
Interestingly enough, CNN itself is largely responsible for making the bogus claim go mainstream.
At around the time Congress passed the American Health Care Act, the GOP's response to the Democratic Party's Affordable Care Act, its critics alleged the Republican bill would make it more difficult for victims of sexual assault to get health insurance.
"Not so," CNN's Chris Cillizza wrote this week in an article titled, "Donald Trump is turning liberals into conspiracy theorists."