Under the Obama-Biden Administration, the VA was plagued by one horrific scandal after another. - President @realDonaldTrump
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>> But when I came into office in 2017, our government had a disgracefully horrible situation going on. They betrayed its solemn pledge to America's veterans. You know that better than anybody. I learned a lot about it from your leadership in this state. Under the Obama-Biden administration, the VA was plagued by one horrific scandal after another. Remember you turn on the news and you just see these horrible scandals having to do with the veterans. You didn't hear any of it. For four years, you literally heard that very little. And we did things that were really amazing and I'm proud of. Thousands of veterans were put on secret medical wait lists and many of them left to die without receiving any care or any aid under Obama. Some very bad people were abusing veterans in VA hospitals, including sadists, yet sadists, they were hitting the veterans when the veterans weren't in prime time, okay? They wouldn't have touched them in prime time, believe me, but they were hitting them when they were in trouble. And a lot of sadists, we got them all out. The VA employees were even caught stealing drugs intended for the treatment of our sick and wounded warriors and they were stealing them and using them for themselves and selling them. But all of that changed when we arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We went from the absolutely worst, Brian, you know that. We went from the absolutely worst to, I mean, that was the worst presidency for the veterans, the previous presidency, wonderful people. You're not allowed to even say that. It's not politically correct, I'll say it, to the greatest champion the veterans ever had in the White House. And it was very much promises made, promises kept, and a couple of the really big ones, just as I promised, I proudly signed the VA Accountability Act, allowing us to quickly terminate VA bureaucrats and bad people who mistreated our vets. We told more than 10,000 bad, corrupt, incompetent VA workers, people that were sadists, and they couldn't get rid, you couldn't get rid of them. You had no right, they could steal, they could beat people up. You couldn't do a damn thing and we got it so you could fire them. And I said, "You're fired! Get out, out, out, out of here, 10,000."
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