Lie August 21, 2020 · Speech · Health care

“VA Accountability sounds simple, but it's not. You couldn't let anybody go, no matter how they disrespected our great vets, no matter what they said to them, no matter how badly they treated them. I mean, we had sadists and we had thieves; we had a lot of bad people. You couldn't fire them under any circumstances. Under any circumstance, you couldn't fire them. And now we say, 'You: You're fired.' Both VA Accountability. And they've wanted to have that -- they've wanted to have that -- actually, they've let go of 9,000 people; replaced them with people that love our vets, want to take care of our vets....You couldn't get them fired because, you know, civil service and unions and different things, you couldn't fire them. Now you can fire them, and you can fire them quickly if they're not doing the job.”

Said
August 21, 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 22359)

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