Lie March 22, 2020 · Press conference · Health care

“Veterans Accountability. Now, if it's crowded within this -- if they can't get to a doctor -- we have great doctors in the VA. I have to say that. We have fantastic doctors -- as good as they come. But it's hard to because of what was bureaucracy, but no longer bureaucracy. We've done a lot of things, in that case, because of Accountability. When people aren't doing their jobs or if they're bad or if they're sadistic, or if they steal or anything bad happens, we're now allowed to fire them for -- I signed that a year and a half ago. For many years, you weren't able to do that.”

Said
March 22, 2020
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Health care
Repeated
119 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 17705)

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