Lie June 20, 2020 · Rally · Health care

“VA Accountability, we've got a lot of bad people in the VA. People that didn't love our vets, people that were sadistic, people that stole -- a lot of bad people. You couldn't get rid of them because they were, let's say, it could be unions or it could be civil service, right? Let's say, let's just say. And so, you couldn't get it done. That was another one. For decades and decades they wanted to get it changed and I got it done with those people and your Congressman. Your Congressman who I'm going to introduce. VA Accountability and now somebody treats our veterans badly and we look at them, and why do we say? We say, you're fired. Get out, right? Get out. They got rid of a lot of bad people that were there for a long time.”

Said
June 20, 2020
Where
Campaign rally
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 20019)

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