Posted on 04/28/2018 7:47:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A furious President Donald Trump on Saturday called for the resignation of the Democratic senator who assembled and released what he called “false” allegations that scuttled the nomination of the White House doctor who’d been in line to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Trump stepped up his criticism of Montana’s Jon Tester, top Democrat on the Senate Veterans’ Committee, in two tweets days after asserting that Tester “has to have a big price to pay” politically in the GOP friendly state for his leading role in Ronny Jackson’s failed VA bid. Tester faces a competitive re-election race this year.
At issue are allegations that Tester has said were brought to his attention by more than 20 military and retired military personnel who’ve worked with Jackson. Tester said not investigating would have been “a dereliction of duty” and said making them public was important for the sake of transparency.
The charges against Jackson raised questions about his prescribing practices and leadership ability, including accusations of drunkenness on the job. Tester’s office collected the allegations, which included a claim that Jackson “got drunk and wrecked a government vehicle” at a Secret Service going-away party.
Trump tweeted Saturday that the allegations “are proving false. The Secret Service is unable to confirm (in fact they deny) any of the phony Democrat charges which have absolutely devastated the wonderful Jackson family. Tester should resign.” …
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Tester already has a job lined up if he loses he sealed it with this facade.
Rosendale will do just fine
“Agree - who would want to subject themselves and family to this?”
Nobody would. We should just let the Dems run everything unquestioned and then they won’t say mean things about us. /s
Send this lying hack packing Montana!
I can imagine Tester being defeated in November, and in December a judge in Hawaii will rule that Tester will get to stay PERMANENTLY in the Senate. After all, the reasoning will go, Trump said BEFORE the election that Tester should be thrown out.
The Ninth Circuit court of Appeals will agree, and SCOTUS will refuse to take the case.
What’s the big deal if it was false? It worked, didn’t it? /s
Why isn’t he calling him Dishonest Jon!?
Why isn’t he calling him Dishonest Jon!?
That was a big complaint even 30 and 40 years ago. Derisively termed “Granolas”, they were never particularly welcome. Easy to see why.
Wwwwhat?
That would be illegal.
/sarc
For some reason I thought Montana would be a conservative state.....am i wrong???
Apparently it’s getting polluted with liberals from the West Coast states.
Censure him for sure. He wins the Harry Reid Vicious Innuendo Award.
While in Montana last fall, I was told of Tester being caught late at night in a Farmer’s barn with a sheep pinned in the corner. He claimed he was lost and trying to stay warm. However he couldn’t explain his pants down around his ankles.
NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA ENDORSES JON TESTER IN 2018 MONTANA SENATE RACE
Billings—Today, NARAL Pro-Choice America, one of the nation’s leading reproductive rights advocacy groups with more than one million members across the country, endorsed farmer and US Senator Jon Tester in his 2018 re-election campaign.
NARAL has given Tester a 100 percent pro-choice rating and is endorsing him as the best candidate to protect reproductive freedom in the Montana Senate election.
“Montanans are tired of Washington politicians chipping away at their personal freedoms like a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions,” said Tester.
In the Senate, Tester has always fought back against legislation that would chip away a woman’s right to choose, and recently stopped a ban on abortions after 20 weeks from passing.
Tester has also gone to bat for critical family planning organizations, which serve nearly 20,000 Montanans every year, by voting against any measures in the Senate that would rob them of their federal funding.
I think he should start with the Dishonest Jon right away..
The sooner the better :)
Yesterday morning http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/385114-tester-moves-back-to-top-of-gop-senate-hit-list
What Blue Wave? I believe the Republicans will pick up a Senate seat in Montana. Thanks Tester.
BINGO!!!! They want to DESTROY Trump and ANYONE and EVERYONE who who even consider working for him!!
Even more important, he helped accomplished the democrat mission, and deserves a promotion instead. So what if a man’s life is ruined? They won.
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