Trump says he's done more for veterans than John McCain did -- while taking credit for McCain's bill

[Nevilledog]

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Fact check: Trump says he's done more for veterans than John McCain did -- while taking credit for McCain's veterans bill

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/fact-check-trump-mccain-loser-veterans-choice/index.html

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump cited the Veterans Choice health care program on Thursday as evidence that he has done more for veterans than the late Sen. John McCain.

There are two big problems here.

One: Choice was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2014.

Two: It was McCain's bill.

McCain, a Navy veteran who was held as a prisoner of war for more than five years during the Vietnam War, was a lead author of the bipartisan legislation -- putting it together with Sen. Bernie Sanders, another frequent target of Trump criticism.

Trump has lied more than 150 times that he is responsible for getting the Choice program created. It's an especially egregious bit of deception, though, when he takes credit for McCain's own initiative to argue he has been superior to McCain. When he did the same thing in 2019, we called it one of his 12 most notable lies of the year.

Trump made his latest comments about McCain while denying a report in The Atlantic magazine that alleged he had made various disparaging remarks about US soldiers who were killed, wounded or captured. The report said he had called McCain a "loser" after McCain died in 2018 and had expressed opposition to lowering flags to half-staff in McCain's honor.

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[Docreed2003]

1. This repeated lie is so outrageous

I just don't see how he's able to say this lie again and again...he had nothing to do with that bill. Why is he repeatedly allowed to get away with saying he did?

[Nevilledog]

4. ...

[Docreed2003]

7. Lmao...well played

[karynnj]

8. Wow, he was much better looking in 2014!

[2naSalit]

2. He's such a POS...

Fucking asshole.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

3. I wish his shit came out his ass...

instead of spewing out his mouth.

[JonLP24]

5. He just took credit for it again!!

He just spoke moments ago -- CNN is airing it.

[Blue Owl]

6. Fuck off scumbag

And enjoy your rapid descent into oblivion

[jcgoldie]

9. He's learned he can literally say anything

Russians and rednecks will come up with a bullshit story to distribute around facebook and on talk radio to back him up. Next he will say he emancipated the slaves to show he was better for African Americans than Lincoln. Led the Allied troops in WWII also, what did Eisenhower do?