Fact check: Trump’s McCain attack
Donald Trump distorts a contribution in a new op-ed in that he says Sen. John McCain has “abandoned a veterans” and “failed a state of Arizona and a country.”
• Trump says McCain authored legislation “to cover adult a VA scandal,” claiming a check “made certain no one has been punished” during a Department of Veterans Affairs for equivocating information to facade prolonged delays for caring during VA hospitals. But VA officials have been punished, and a check stretched a VA secretary’s energy to fortify employees for misconduct.
• Trump claims “1,000+ veterans died watchful for medical care” in a “VA scandal.” But an eccentric supervision news pronounced it was “unable to conclusively assert” that delays caused veterans’ deaths. The 1,000 figure comes from a news news on a series of prejudicial genocide payments involving veterans who perceived unsound VA care.
• He says McCain has done a U.S. “less safe,” citing as justification a fact that McCain “even voted for a Iran Nuclear Review Act of 2015,” that gave Congress a right to opinion on a Iran chief deal. Trump doesn’t discuss that a check upheld a Senate 98-1.
The New York genuine estate mogul, who is using for a Republican presidential nomination, has been rising in a polls. The latest Washington Post shows that 24% of purebred Republicans and Republican-leaning independents support him for president. That gives him a double-digit lead over his nearest competition, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (13%) and former Florida administrator Jeb Bush (12%).
Trump came underneath heavy criticismnot a fight heromore than 5 years
In response to a critique of his comments on McCain, Trump wrote a Jul 19 op-ed for USA TODAY that carried a title “Trump: we don’t need to be lectured.” The op-ed lists a ways that Trump believes McCain has “failed a state of Arizona and a country.”
Trump has each right to demonstrate that opinion, though he twists a contribution when providing his ancillary evidence.
THE ‘VA SCANDAL’
In his op-ed, Trump writes about a wait-list debate that cost VA Secretary Eric Shinseki his job
The debate originated during a Phoenix VA Health Care System in McCain’s home state of Arizona. The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs suggested on Apr 9, 2014, that a Phoenix VA was gripping dual sets of annals to censor prolonged waits for health caring appointments and that “as many as 40 veterans” might have died since of a behind care, a Arizona Republic
An inner review conducted by a VA in May and Jun 2014 found a problem of fake scheduling was widespread, as USA TODAY reported during a time.
Congress responded with legislation — sponsored in a Senate by Bernie Sanders, who’s using for a Democratic assignment for president, and co-sponsored by McCain — called a Veterans’ Access to Care by Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014
Trump, Jul 19
There are mixed issues with this excerpt, though let’s initial cruise a explain that a legislation was “to cover adult a VA scandal” and that it “made certain no one has been punished.”
The fact is that eight VA employeesnot as manyincluding McCain
New York Times, Apr 22
In addition, a legislation that Trump criticizes supposing a VA secretary with larger management to fortify comparison employees. A outline of a discussion report
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, 2014
— Authorize VA to glow or lower Senior Executive Service (SES) employees and Title 38 SES homogeneous employees for bad opening or misconduct.
— Provide an expedited and singular interest routine for employees trained underneath this authority. Appeals would go to a Merit Systems Protection Board executive judge, who would have 21 days to confirm on a appeal. If a preference is not reached within that 21-day period, afterwards VA’s preference to mislay or lower a executive is final.
— Prohibit SES employees from receiving pay, bonuses and advantages during a interest process.
As for his explain that “1,000+ veterans died watchful for medical care,” Trump is conflating dual issues: a wait-list debate and a series of prejudicial genocide settlements during VA hospitals.
Trump’s op-ed links to a news articleJune 2014 report
Coburn’s news links to a CIR story that ran in The Philadelphia Inquirer that says “nearly 1,000? payments were done over a 10-year duration for a accumulation of reasons to a families of veterans who perceived unsound caring during a VA.
Center for Investigative Reporting, Apr 3, 2014
The full CIR report,Inquirer
As for a series of deaths caused by a wait-time scandal, a Office of Inspector General within a Department of Veterans Affairs released a final news in Aug 2014
On Sept. 17, 2014, Acting Inspector General Richard Griffin testified
“As we cautioned in my May 15, 2014, testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, it is one thing to be on a watchful list and it is another thing to interpretation that being on a watchful list caused death,” Griffin pronounced in his testimony.
IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL
Trump also criticizes McCain for voting for a Iran Nuclear Review Act of 2015, citing it as justification that McCain “has done America reduction safe.”
Trump, Jul 19
Again, Trump is entitled to his opinion. But he leaves out some critical context — commencement with a fact that a check passed a Senate 98-1the House 400-25
The check — that is indeed called a Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015
As The New York Times reported
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on a Senate building during a opinion on May 7 called a billMay 22
Congress could retard a chief agreement, if it musters a two-thirds infancy that would be indispensable to overrule a halt that a boss has promised
Trump is giveaway to impugn a legislation and McCain for voting for it, only as he is giveaway to impugn McCain for cosponsoring a VA legislation. But in both cases he goes too distant when he distorts and obscures a contribution to fit his narrative.
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