President Trump, speaking in Ohio, exaggerated his role in Mr. McCain’s funeral, mischaracterized the senator’s record on veterans issues and cited misleading statistics on the economy and tanks.
What Mr. Trump Said
Senator John McCain did obtain a copy of the so-called Steele Dossier, which outlined a range of often salacious but unproven misdeeds by President Trump and his associates — and he did turn it over to the F. B. I. — but this occurred after the 2016 presidential election. The information provided by Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the dossier, had already reached F. B. I. agents investigating Mr. Trump in September, and he met with agents in October.
What Mr. Trump Said
Mr. Trump did sign reforms to the Veterans Choice health care program. He also signed a law to encourage whistle-blowing and made it easier to fire bad employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
But the Veterans Choice Act, which created the Veterans Choice program and allowed the V. A. to penalize or remove problematic workers, was first signed into law in 2014. And it was Mr. McCain and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, then the chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, who sponsored the Senate version of the bill.
