But when I came into office in 2017,
our government had a disgracefully
horrible situation going on. They betrayed a 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 1 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 4 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 waitlists,
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 Sadis. He had Sadis.
They were hitting the veterans when the veterans weren't in prime time,
okay? They wouldn't have touched him in prime time, believe me, but they were hitting him 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 would say this 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
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