Darin Selnick: Veteran says VA prioritizes transgender surgeries over needed reconstructive surgery
John Solomon Reports
John Solomon
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🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Darin Selnick, a retired Air Force Captain and former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs under President Trump, said a female veteran told him that a man wanting breast augmentation transgender surgery will get it from the Veterans Affairs while she can't get breast reconstructive surgery following combat in Iraq.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and welcome to a new edition of John Solomon reports. |
| 0:10.9 | The podcast from Justin News where today I'm afraid we're going to make you unhappy. |
| 0:15.3 | We're going to make you outrage. |
| 0:16.8 | You're going to hear some things about how we are treating our veterans in the VA system |
| 0:21.5 | that will not make you happy. |
| 0:24.3 | Remember we had those wait times, we had all those mistakes, we had the famous Phoenix |
| 0:28.6 | scandal in the VA. |
| 0:30.3 | Well we're going to bring on the show today, Darren Selnik, a longtime former VA official |
| 0:36.8 | former Air Force captain, great guy, honest broker and he's going to tell you some bad news. |
| 0:42.3 | The VA wait times are growing again. |
| 0:45.6 | There is a new scandal brewing, a new disservice to the amazing men and women who fought for |
| 0:51.6 | us with the promise that we would care for them after they came home. |
| 0:56.2 | And in this case we have a lot of pain and suffering to show. |
| 0:59.8 | So we are going to go right to that today. |
| 1:03.4 | Check out all the breaking headlines of Justin News. |
| 1:05.1 | We'll be back after the commercial break when we do Darren Selnik's here, really important |
| 1:09.0 | story. |
| 1:10.8 | We need to speak up about what's going on at the VA and here today. |
| 1:14.4 | We're going to give you the facts, all of them right here. |
| 1:16.4 | We'll be right back. |
| 1:18.4 | All right folks, welcome back from the commercial break and I promised a very special guest with |
| 1:29.1 | a very important story. |
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