Donald Trump Quotes
I have gone to all over the country and I've met so many veterans and I have tremendous veteran support.
Trump, Donald. "Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York." The American Presidency Project, 26 Sept. 2016.
The George W. Bush Administration had gone to war against Iraq for reasons that turned out not to be true, and then after a military victory with few casualties, botched the occupation of the country and a vicious insurgency developed bogging down the nation in its longest war in history. The major burden fell on the armed forces and their families. The hearings were in part examining the Bush Administration policies.
The performance of a number of Veterans Administrations hospitals and health facilities had been terrible and the some VA official had lied about the VA performance making it seem as though the performance was not as bad as it was in reality. There were some calls for the elimination of the VA hospitals and replacing them with vouchers. This was the official American Legion Response to a Conservative Congressional proposal to replace the Veterans Administration hospitals with vouchers whereby veterans would go to private physicians for their health care instead of VA facilities. Generally, the American Legion was quite conservative politically and in support of most Republican proposals, but this went too far.
Donald John Trump is an American media personality and businessman who served as the 45th and 47th president of the United States.
