Posted on 03/09/2024 3:53:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
Trump’s former physician and GOP ally is now a retired captain, not an admiral
Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician turned GOP congressman, regularly touts his military bona fides.
“As a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral with nearly three decades of military service I understand the commitment and sacrifices made by servicemen and servicewomen to serve our country,” the two-term representative from Texas says on his congressional website in a message posted to a page listing his work on veterans issues.
But Jackson is no longer a retired admiral. The Navy demoted him in July 2022 following a damaging Pentagon inspector general’s report that substantiated allegations about his inappropriate behavior as a White House physician, a previously unreported decision confirmed by a current defense official and a former U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive personnel move.
Jackson is now a retired Navy captain, those people said — a demotion that carries a significant financial burden in addition to the social stigma of stripped rank in military circles.
Despite the demotion, Jackson has continued to refer to himself as a retired rear admiral, including in statements released since the Navy reclassified him as a retired captain. Former president Donald Trump and other Republicans have also continued to publicly describe Jackson using his former rank; it’s unclear if they were aware of his demotion.
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Yeah. They investigated Trump, too. Same people.
But hey. It’s the Washington Post, right? The same people (David Ignatius) who collaborated with the outgoing Obama White House and David Clapper to “take the kill shot on Flynn”.
Those people. You believe them then.
These sickos are trusting the Briben regime DoD to give such a report.
Truly sickening, and, telling, that they’re not questioning, this, but jumping upon the latest, leftist wagon.
The US Navy found him negligent, the Post reported it.
These NT DS plants don’t care about the atrocities committed against Pres Trump and his associates.
They just want to Get Trump. No matter the means or cost.
Yeah. So I suppose you are one of those people on this site who fully supported the effort against General Flynn, and thought he deserved it?
Do I read you right?
The allegations, if true, might well have cost him his star, and seen him retired as an O6, if they came to light while he was retired. But taking his star after he retired? I expect memoirs to be a lot less candid if this is a thing for retired service members who haven’t committed the crime of being on good terms with Donald Trump.
Well. I have seen enough from some of these people to get their measure.
Find out what he’s drinking and send a barrel to every admiral.
He did plead guilty and accepted a pardon, which is another admission of guilt.
Is it possible they screwed up?
I believe our Congressman, Don Bacon (sympathies accepted), receives his congressional pay, plus he is a retired Brigadier General from USAF.
Soviet Union of the 1930s...
Once the 2024 swindle is accomplished, insurrectionists like Jackson will be summarily shot...
...According to the report, during a presidential trip to Manila in 2014, Jackson was accused of making inappropriate comments about a female subordinate and then knocking on her hotel room door while drunk in the middle of the night saying, “I need you.”
Another subordinate walked by to ask what he was doing, and Jackson allegedly led both subordinates to his room to take photos of himself eating local street food. The female subordinate described Jackson's conduct as “frat boy-type behavior,” according to the report.
“I flat out reject any allegation that I consumed alcohol while on duty,” Jackson said following the release of the report, adding, “I also categorically deny any implication that I was in any way sexually inappropriate at work, outside of work, or anywhere with any member of my staff or anyone else.”
In 2018, then-President Trump nominated Jackson to be Veteran Affairs secretary, but reports of his conduct led to Jackson withdrawing himself from nomination. Jackson retired from the Navy in 2019 and the next year won the House seat in Texas that was left open by Rep. Mac Thornberry’s retirement
Okay. You asked if they “screwed up”. You do realize it was planned, not a “screw up”, don’t you? You don’t know about what actually happened to General Flynn. I could help you understand, but don’t see it as a useful expenditure of my time.
I spent a great deal of time looking at that particular set of events around General Flynn, so I know what I speak of.
Again. It was not a “screw up”. It was a planned and executed operation by the Obama White House against Flynn.
I did read the article, thank you for the link.
Interesting ...
.... an “overwhelming majority of witnesses (56) … who worked with RDML Jackson from 2012 through 2018 told us they personally experienced, saw, or heard about him yelling, screaming, cursing, or belittling subordinates,” the report says....
So ... since 2012, under the 0blama regime ... all of this was supposedly going on .... yet ... no one acted on it until Jackson was Trump’s physician????
Talk about something smelling fishy, in Denmark.
Interesting how this ‘scathing report’ surfaces immediately after Joementia’s drug fueled SSoTU address.
These creeps are SO obvious.
The leftist media, and, the ones trying to sell this, here.
Yes. Exactly.
Some people wonder why I bring up both President Trump and General Flynn in the context of what we saw with Admiral Jackson. It is all part and parcel of the same approach.
It is the practice of the Left.
We saw their protection of Communists as far back as the 1930’s. We saw it with Whittaker Chambers who was targeted by the Truman Administration because he spoke out about Alger Hiss.
We saw it practiced against Joseph McCarthy in his quest to make public the presence of Soviet agents and sympathizers in the US Government and military.
We saw it practiced against Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and we saw it practiced against Trump and all those around him.
That is why it matters, and why I bring it up in the context of Admiral Jackson.
The technology changes, but the tactics are the same.
Yes. It is why non-Lefitsts, at a gut level, understood just what was going on with Justice Thomas during his nomination hearings, with this woman who said he sexually harassed her, yet...she kept on contacting him and maintaining a relationship.
A high tech lynching, indeed.
Just checked out past articles on Senator Ronny Jackson. It appears he is a threat to powers-that-be and needs to be taken down. This smear campaign has been going on since 2018.
In order to get TRUMP, they have to destroy the integrity of the members of his inner circle.
Shame on FReepers who believe this garbage. IMO they TROLLS, one and all.
Just checked out past articles on Senator Ronny Jackson. It appears he is a threat to powers-that-be and needs to be taken down.
Yes, indeed.
Explains why the usual DS trolls are ‘all out’ on this.
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