Trump's first event of the day was effectively an infomercial for his luxe Trump National Doral resort, near Miami, and a preview of his newest hotel's much-hyped grand opening in Washington on Wednesday.

As he stood before his sun-splashed course in a dark suit and red tie and was flanked by dozens of employees who gave glowing testimonials of their boss, Trump offered contradictory appraisals of the effects of the federal health-care law on his employees and added new fuel to his unsubstantiated claim that the election is riddled with fraud and rigged against him.

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After ascending the steps of a small stage erected against the backdrop of his palatial property, Trump boasted about his effort to revitalize the vacation spot after purchasing it a few years ago.

“We could have renovated the inexpensive way with paint, but instead, we ripped it down to the steel,” he said.

Trump was mainly there, he said, to talk about the employees.

“Eighty percent of them are Hispanic,” Trump said. “We have 80 percent Hispanic. People don't know these things.”

Trump soon launched into a renewed thrashing of one of his favorite targets: the federal health-care law known as Obamacare.

“I can say all of my employees are having a tremendous problem with Obamacare,” Trump claimed.

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But only a few minutes later, he offered a different perspective: “They are not worried about their health care because we take great care of people.”

After his opening remarks, Trump issued an open invitation to the employees who joined him to say a few words. Some were from his Mar-a-Lago Club, in nearby Palm Beach, they revealed. All of them said nice things about Trump and their jobs. He insisted that was not preplanned.

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Before Trump turned the microphone over to the resort workers, he put in a word for his new hotel in Washington, where he will be Wednesday morning, instead of stumping in a key swing state.

“I think it's one of the great hotels — could be one of the great hotels in the world,” Trump bragged. He said it was constructed on time and under budget. The government, he argued, should do the same with its projects.

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After the event, reporters shouted questions at Trump as he slowly walked away surrounded by a pack of aides and security personnel.

“Mr. Trump, can we talk about the 'rigged system' for a second?” one asked.

“Do you think the last two elections were conducted fairly?” inquired another.

“Mr. Trump, do you still think the election's going to be stolen from you?” a third reporter asked. This time, Trump was inclined to respond.

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“Ask Obama. Tell him to look at his tape when he was running eight years ago,” Trump said.

The GOP nominee's campaign did not immediately respond to a question about what specific video he was talking about.

Some conservatives have pointed to remarks President Obama made as a candidate in the 2008 campaign when he was asked by a woman what he could say to assure people that the election will not be rigged. The Daily Caller reported on them last week. In his remarks, Obama did not claim that the election was rigged for or against him.

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“Well, I tell you what — it helps in Ohio that we've got Democrats in charge of the machines,” Obama said. He added: “But look, I come from Chicago. So, I want to be honest, it's not as if it's just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past. Sometimes Democrats have, too. You know, whenever people are in power, they have this tendency to try to, you know, tilt things in their direction.” Obama also calls for a nonpartisan voting rights division at the Justice Department to address voter fraud and intimidation.

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As he fielded some questions from reporters, Trump said that “some” of his resort employees receive insurance through the federal health-care law, but he did not specify how many.

Trump Doral general manager David Feder told reporters afterward that “over 95 percent” of the resort’s employees receive health-care coverage through the company and that “very, very few” of them rely on plans offered through the federal health-care law.

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So which employees are using the exchanges offered under the federal health-care law and why? A reporter asked him.

Feder said he did not know for sure.

“We might have maybe some very part-time — like you know in the winter time we have X amount of part-time employees that we use,” he said, offering a theory about who might be using the law to get health coverage.

There was one thing that Feder had more certitude about: the nature of the event that Trump had just held.