During a news conference on Tuesday, Donald Trump said: “We’re losing thousands of (veterans) waiting on line” because they can’t get speedy health care from the Veterans Administration.
Similar claims that 300,000 died because of delays by the VA clearly don’t have hard evidence to back them up. Instances at individual VA hospitals seldom go into double digits, so there’s no hard evidence there that the number of deaths is in the thousands either. Trump dialed back the rhetoric, but the claim still leaves out important context. We rate this claim Half True.
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