Lie March 20, 2019 · Speech · Health care

“I got Choice and I got Accountability. Accountability -- meaning, if somebody mistreats our vets -- for 45 years they were trying -- they mistreat our vets, and we say, ‘Hey, you're fired. Get out. You can't mistreat our vets.’ They never got it done.”

Said
March 20, 2019
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 9361)

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