On Monday night, Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Doug Collins shellacked longtime CNN correspondent Brian Todd over a report late last week claiming VA call centers were being automated, noting he ran the story despite Collins and his team offering facts countering this predictable spin from the Trump-hating network.
Collins’s takedown came in the form of a thread on X, starting with a simple statement that surely got everyone’s attention:
He then explained Todd reaches out “[e]very few days…asking for the department’s response to whatever fake controversy VA’s critics are pushing” and his current hobbyhorse “seems to be regurgitating pre-packaged opposition research VA critics prepare for him.”
Collins then got to the heart of his claim about VA call centers, which veterans use for any number of reasons, including help understanding…
