Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins on Newsmax on Friday had a warning for Democrats and journalists who might be inclined to spread false information about his department: I will push back if you “start scaring my veterans.”

“When you start attacking what many in the liberal legacy media, the folks who have issues with government jobs, where they’re making their living basically on it, when you have unions, you have others, you also have members of Congress who have no way to fight back against what [President] Donald Trump is bringing to D.C., and that is generational change, then what do you do? You just start making stuff up,” Collins said Friday on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.”

“The sad part about this is, is we’re dealing with people’s lives, we’re dealing with people’s fears, we’re dealing with people’s hopes,” he said. “And, here at the VA, I take that very seriously, not only for the employees here, but also the ones that we serve, and that’s the veterans. So, if you start scaring my veterans, you start scaring my employees with fake information, false news, innuendo and rumor, then you’re going to find that I’m going to be on the other end calling you out for it.”

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