Lie August 20, 2020 · Speech · Health care

“Federal workers who failed and mistreated our veterans now can be told, 'You're fired.' That's [Veterans] Accountability. We couldn't fire them. We had sadists. We had thieves. We had some bad people. They let go of 9,000 people in the VA. They were bad people. They didn't love our vets. Now they have to love our vets.”

Said
August 20, 2020
Where
Speech
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 21001)

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