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Trump: Illegal Immigrants Are Treated ‘Better’ Than Veterans [VIDEO]

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Donald Trump said Thursday that “illegal immigrants are treated better in many cases than our veterans.”

Appearing on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Trump said it was “disgraceful” how the veterans are treated by Veterans Affairs: “It’s so bad, it’s so bad, and so said… the veterans are treated so, so horribly”

Trump then criticized Hillary Clinton’s belief that the V.A. is “great” and “how wonderful it is and the wonderful job they’re doing, and it’s overrated, the problems are overrated.”

“You know the illegal immigrants are treated better in many cases than our veterans,” Trump said.

Trump went on, “You know it’s one of my big subjects, is the Veterans Administration. That’s why, I mean I’ve gotten to know so many veterans. Yesterday in New Hampshire, I was with a whole group of them, and it’s very sad what’s happening to the veterans. And then you’ll have Hillary two weeks ago come out and say how wonderfully it’s being run and it’s overrated. It’s an overrated problem. Now yesterday she changed. She said, ‘Oh, well, actually, we’re going to do this and that.’ I mean it is so sad.”

“I will fix the Veterans Administration through great management,” insisted Trump. “And also, I put a plan out where if they don’t get the good treatment when they go to a doctor, we’re going to pay the bill.”

Trump said that current V.A. Secretary Bob McDonald “hasn’t done much of a job” and that he has “somebody in mind” to replace the current secretary that would “be phenomenal.”

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