He’s the doc who gave Trump his physical! Heads gonna explode!
He should have fired Sessions, rosenstein and mueller at the same time. The VA won’t matter if the rats take back control and it’s looking like they will.
Already hearing from the ugly left that this is payoff for Admiral Jackson’s glowing health report on President Trump. They just can’t let it go.....
Thrilled with the new appointment!!
Boom!
Juan needs a good old fashioned A$$ kicking, just to remove the DNC talking points from that location...
Congratulations to Dr. Ronny Jackson, another fine Texan (hometown: Levelland) to help President Trump. May it be a great partnership and a blessing to our veterans.
I wiki’d this Admiral. He’s seen some action and has ribbons for jumping out of perfectly good airplanes and being a good shot with pistol and rifle. Plus he was White House doc for the two previous administrations and should know the truth about GWB’s septum and Barky’s anus.
He broke the news about the firing of the head.
Fired is really not the right word. He’s simply being replaced. Fired implies he did something wrong.
The VA is, and may forever be, unwieldy. Major decisions pending. Then Shulkin got caught up in a minor “Travelgate” of his own doing. Revisions to Choice Program. Agent Orange Presumptives. Firepits. etal.
He want getting the job done. Why keep him? This isn’t a Democrat administration. Dead wood gets burned.
Anther Obama holdover bites the dust.
Just a thought. Could it possibly be that Trump held over these Obama appointees just to show us how incompetent or untrustworthy they are?
I looked him up when he became White House physician. He’s the real deal.
CC
Since it looks like Trump could be on the way to losing his base in November, Trump in the next few weeks should:
- Fire Elaine Chao to stick it to McConnell.
- Fire Mueller and end the witch hunt, since he's going to be impeached anyway.
- Give an Oval Office address to the people, apologizing for being boxed into this corner, and lay out a new agenda for the second two years of his term, on fixing the VA system, rebuilding manufacturing, and scaling back H-1B visa workers taking STEM jobs from Americans to complement renewed growth in manufacturing jobs at home.
-PJ
Who said he was fired? Trump didn’t say he was fired.
There’s been a few retired General officers to head the VA, but I’ve never heard of an active duty general/flag officer heading the VA. Sounds strange to me, but Trump I guess can nominate who he feels like nominating. The leaker McMaster who Trump fired as NSA I guarantee will get a 4th star for the “outstanding” job he did in the White House. What a joke.
My understanding is that Trump fired him because the VA situation has not changed for the positive during the Trump administration. I agree — Replace him.
From Wikipedia - it says he was fired. Might have something to do with this?
European trip controversy
In September 2017, The Washington Post reported that Shulkin spent nearly half his time on a recent international trip to Europe—which was paid for by taxpayers—sightseeing and shopping with his wife, Merle Bari.[27] Shulkin later told the Post that he did “nothing inappropriate” on the trip, that the trip was taken primarily to attend a Five Eyes conference, and that personal visits to “various historic and other sites in London and in Denmark” were done “on nights, on weekends, the day before the conference started” and were “paid for by me.”[28]
In February 2018, a report by Michael J. Missal, the Inspector General of Veterans Affairs, found that Shulkin and his staff had lied to both the agency’s ethics officials and the public about the nature of his July 2017 trip to Europe. The report found that Shulkin’s chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, altered emails and made false statements to make it look like Shulkin was receiving a Danish government award to justify his wife accompanying him on the taxpayer-funded trip. The VA paid over $4,300 for her airfare. The Inspector General found that the overall expense for the trip was at least $122,334. The report also found that Shulkin had inappropriately accepted tickets to Wimbledon worth thousands of dollars and had directed an aide to act as a “personal travel concierge” for the trip. The Inspector General referred his concerns about the potential criminality of the actions undertaken by Shulkin’s chief of staff to the Justice Department, which declined to prosecute.[29]