Trump keeps lying about Veterans Choice

He has told this lie over 100 times. I am glad someone said something to him about it. It was passed in 2014 and signed by Obama.

Trump said again that he’s done more for veterans than John McCain did.

Like by getting the Veterans Choice law.

Which was signed in 2014.

And co-authored by John McCain. https://t.co/MQRgQXEwNR
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 4, 2020

Trump again tonight in comments to the pool: My way of dealing with vets is “much more successful” than John McCain’s, “with Choice and Accountability and all the things I've got.”

He is taking credit for *McCain’s own bill* to argue that he’s done more than McCain. https://t.co/4XjGBdLzHt
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 4, 2020

"We passed Veterans Choice," Trump lies for more than the 150th time of the program signed into law by Obama in 2014.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 20, 2020

It's fairly alarming that the President has been lying for years at nearly every public event about passing a bill and this may be the first time a reporter has challenged him about it to his face. https://t.co/93YX6Svidu
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 8, 2020

Trump storms out of press conference after @PaulaReidCBS asks him why he keeps lying about passing Vererans’ Choice, a program that actually was passed under Barack Obama. Trump has claimed over 100 times that it’s his program, when it’s actually Obama’s. He got so upset he left! pic.twitter.com/AUTtxUjUoB
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈 (@aravosis) August 8, 2020

!!! Trump is challenged for I think the first time ever on why he keeps lying that he got Veterans Choice passed – and he ends the “news conference” and walks out.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 8, 2020

And after @PaulaReidCBS asks him why he keeps lying about passing Veterans Choice, the President promptly walks out…
— Jonathan Franks (@jonfranks) August 8, 2020

"We passed Choice, as you know," Trump says for at least the 143rd time of the bill signed into law by Obama in 2014, "and they've been trying to get that for decades and decades and decades and no president's ever been able to do it."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 8, 2020

Trump begins his August 8 Bedminster news conference with some casual xenophobia, and takes credit for Veterans Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by President Obama in 2014 pic.twitter.com/NPjNdhDHQ2
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 8, 2020

Trump just took credit for Veterans Choice legislation.

The Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act was signed into law by President Obama in 2014.

He’s so bad at everything he’s not even good at lying. pic.twitter.com/ZjuuCoNKLc
— VoteVets (@votevets) August 8, 2020

Trump walks out of his news conference after @PaulaReidCBS challenges him on the Veterans Choice lie he has told more than 150 times: https://t.co/4OfLneQ089
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 9, 2020

Trump lies about Veterans Choice over and over

I am sure he has told this lie dozens of times. Does anyone ever correct him to his face?

Trump lies that he got Veterans Choice passed after others had tried for almost 50 years, though Choice was a Sanders-McCain bill signed into law by Obama in 2014, and he's said this more than 142 times and how do I not have a keyboard hot key for this yet
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 6, 2020

Tuned in to the president's ongoing Arizona "tele-rally" just in time to hear him claim he got Veterans Choice approved
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 18, 2020

Trump, who signed a 2018 law that modified the Choice program but did not create the Choice program, has now claimed more than 145 times to have created the Choice program. (I never have an exact count because by the time I've caught up he's said it more.) https://t.co/1ub4h7iyFl
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 22, 2020

LIE. @BarackObama signed the VA Choice Act — sponsored by @BernieSanders — into law in 2014. https://t.co/4GKFDQ0mhv
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) August 4, 2020

Trump slams Obama and Biden over their handling of the VA, then says he, conversely, approved Veterans Choice. Obama signed Veterans Choice into law in 2014.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 17, 2020

Trump talks about school choice, then, because he said "choice," proceeds to repeat his lie that he is the one who got the Obama-era Veterans Choice program created.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 11, 2020

“We got Choice approved for the vets,” Trump lies about the Sanders-McCain bill signed into law by Obama in 2014.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 5, 2020

During somnambulant coronavirus speech at the White House, Trump takes credit for Veterans Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by President Obama in 2014 pic.twitter.com/Bgfa1e6UNz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 30, 2020

Is any reporter EVER going to call him on the veterans choice LIE?
— Justice13_ (@Justice13__) June 17, 2020

Wow. At this veterans event in the east room, @realDonaldTrump is talking about how “we got VA accountability passed” instead of repeating his done-to-death lie about having signed VA choice into law.

cc: @GlennKesslerWP @ddale8
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 17, 2020

Trump takes credit for Veterans Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by Obama in 2014 pic.twitter.com/0SDjkN3hm1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 17, 2020

Donald Trump said his administration passed veteran's Choice after a 50-year wait. The policy dates to the Obama administration: https://t.co/7eBPaPRPoe #TulsaTrumpRally
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) June 21, 2020

Asked what his greatest accomplishment is, Trump lists, among other things, how "we got" Veterans Choice, a program actually created in 2014 under Obama.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 26, 2020

Trump pals have inappropriate influence over the VA

They were called the “Mar-a-Lago Crowd” by people inside the government. A damning exposé dubbed them the “shadow rulers of the VA.” https://t.co/b41UEkcVOY
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 22, 2019

Trump has been promoting a risky antidepressant made by Johnson & Johnson to treat depression in veterans. Johnson & Johnson worked with three Mar-a-Lago members who have enormous influence over the VA–did Trump’s paying customers recommend the drug? https://t.co/FwmcCFwUyz
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 24, 2019

BREAKING: CREW’s ongoing investigation into the influence of Trump’s customers just uncovered more than 300 pages of records into a major scandal at the VA. Read them here: https://t.co/j91vgtiXFb
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 22, 2019

House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Mark Takano opened an investigation into the outsized role of three members of President Donald Trump's Florida country club in a digital health record contract and other VA business.https://t.co/s1aV91a42E
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 9, 2019

Trump lies again about the VA

He has told this lie over and over.

You're claiming credit for the Veterans Choice and Accountability Act of … 2014? https://t.co/xfkSpJ8dRm
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 24, 2019

As always: Trump did not pass or sign the Choice bill. Obama did, in 2014. Trump signed the VA MISSION Act, which modified the Choice program. This is the 65th time he has made this claim.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2019

Conservative media outlets roundly mocked Ocasio-Cortez for saying the VA isn’t broken. Trump just said she was right (so he could take credit for the non-brokenness). pic.twitter.com/1RH0TIcdxa
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2019

VA Secretary praised Jefferson Davis

Read the entire story. This isn't just your standard Confederate nostalgia. Incredible. https://t.co/YJ4LCX83g7

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 7, 2018

Wilkie spoke to a pro-Confederates as recently as 2009, speaking on Lee to a group headed by a prominent neo-Confederate which had on it's webpage a proclamation calling Union-occupation of Maryland "oppression" and "tyranny" and "terrible despotism." https://t.co/82m21u57Zj

— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) December 7, 2018

If you don’t think Trump is a bigot, read this article

The Trump administration has encouraged white nationalists.

Don’t condemn white nationalists, Veterans Affairs’ diversity chief was told after Charlottesville, emails show https://t.co/MiDzy4g8No

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 6, 2018

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago pals have influence over the VA

The House Oversight, and Veteran’s Affairs Committees concluded today that 3 men with ties to Mar a Lago golf club used connections to advance a plan “hugely profitable” to them to “monetize veteran’s records.” The report also mentions Jared and Ivanka. https://t.co/b75RLRGB3h
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 27, 2021

Trump's Mar-a-Lago buddies are making calls at the VA. We got 300 pages of emails proving it: https://t.co/j91vgtiXFb
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) September 6, 2019

update 12/4/18

Help Wanted: Old white men of leisure wanted for shadow ruler positions. No experience? No problem. Buy a Mar-a-Lago membership and you too can dabble in multi-billion dollar efforts to overhaul electronic records for millions of veterans. Contact Judge Elihu Smails to apply. https://t.co/pXe6pmDkFE
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 4, 2018

Could it have something to do with the three Mar-a-Lago donors that are now running the VA.https://t.co/bUWRNDJiuP
— Nichola Blair (@ToriRob11) November 12, 2018

Mar-a-Lago acquaintance of Pres. Trump applied pressure on the VA to get iPhone app his family designed to be adopted by Apple for use with veterans.

VA officials killed the plan. https://t.co/44JNp5XmI4 via @WSJ
— Ben Kesling (@bkesling) November 21, 2018

The Trump administration is defending the legality of having three Trump associates help steer the Department of Veterans Affairs from the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, asserting that a Watergate-era sunshine law on advisory committees shouldn’t apply. https://t.co/9goIAhRpsq
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) November 25, 2018

NEW: The Government Accountability Office will investigate whether individuals connected to President @realDonaldTrump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida have had inappropriate influence over the Department of Veterans Affairshttps://t.co/uv1Zss9sg4
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) November 27, 2018

Veterans deserve better

Why the GI mess? Why the VA mess? Why no real help for suicide and mental health treatment? Why are Trump's mystery friends from Mar-a-lago reportedly calling shots at the VA with no oversight? We have not covered this enough and as I told you on Veterans' Day, we will do better. pic.twitter.com/rODsLpDfug

— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) November 16, 2018

Thousands of student veterans have still not received education and housing payments from the US government due to a series of glitches plaguing the Department of Veterans Affairs' information and technology system, top VA officials confirmed https://t.co/LLJvhxm3EF pic.twitter.com/2Ar5xRpoTl

— CNN (@CNN) November 16, 2018

If you read one thing today, MAKE IT THIS 👇 #onething
29-year-old veteran: "I’m about to lose everything that I own and become homeless," Roundtree said. "I don’t want to be that veteran on the street begging for change because I haven’t received what I was promised." https://t.co/whflnTEc5R

— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) November 12, 2018

Money is there, but old systems stressed out and overloaded & have failed, they didn't factor that into the plan. Thousands of veterans on the brink of $ collapse. https://t.co/TbfuOjlgQH via @nbcnews

— Muckmaker™ (@RealMuckmaker) November 12, 2018

Trump pals influence VA policies

This is not how government work should be done. I would call it corrupt.

Three wealthy Mar-a-Lago members (who are *not government employees*) are issuing guidance at the VA, which VA workers treat like commands. Stunning, insane piece from @iarnsdorf. https://t.co/QY3Y1cVRiL pic.twitter.com/toIDpwoMd1

— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) August 7, 2018

This is so swampy that it boggles the mind. Terrific reporting —> https://t.co/f4WjO0yHS8

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) August 8, 2018

An earlier article on one of the three Trump cronies