8 hours agoDonald Trump seeks the senator's resignation that rejected his candidate
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)President Donald Trump has called for the resignation of Democrat Senator Jon Tester, who had voiced concern for the president's candidate for the head of the Veterans' Affairs Agency, Ronny Jackson. Jackson withdrew candidacy for the post Thursday. Dr. Jackson, who is currently the physician of the White House and Admiral of [...]
President Donald Trump has called for the resignation of Democrat Senator Jon Tester, who had voiced concern for the president's candidate for the head of the Veterans' Affairs Agency, Ronny Jackson. Jackson withdrew candidacy for the post Thursday.
Dr. Jackson, who is currently the White House doctor and Admiral of the Military Navy, withdrew the candidacy for chief of the largest federal agency after the Pentagon, after lawmakers began to analyse rumours that he committed ethical and professional violations.
Through comments posted on Twitter, the president writes that the allegations “are proving false” and that Senator Tester from the state Montana must resign.
Trump blames Senator Tester for eliminating Mr. Jackson's candidacy after the senator had said on Wednesday that 20 current and former members of the armed forces who knew Mr. Jackson close to work conditions had informed lawmakers that the White House doctor drank during his work, ill-treated subordinates by creating a difficult working environment and prescribed medicines without knowing the patient's health problems.
Jackson said that if the charges “had something real, I wouldn't have been elected, raised to responsibility and had no one entrusted me with the White House doctor's duty for three presidents over a 12-year period. When I accepted the appointment by the president I expected to face difficult questions about care for veterans, but I did not expect I would have to respond to these baseless and anonymous attacks on my character and integrity”.
The White House distributed documents to reporters, saying they proved there was nothing true on charges that Jackson had crashed a government car after being at an evening and that he had prescribed non-ethic medication.
Jackson was losing support in Congress and lawmakers both Democrats and Republicans had postponed the session to confirm his candidacy to allow time for investigating the charges.
According to some American media groups, Jackson was known as “the candy man”, a reference to the medicines he prescribed.
