{"id":179173,"date":"2018-04-26T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/26\/and-hes-gone-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-26T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T23:34:00","slug":"and-hes-gone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/26\/and-hes-gone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"And He&#8217;s Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronny Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/ronny-jackson-withdraws-as-trumps-nominee-to-lead-veterans-affairs\/2018\/04\/26\/5a343806-48f6-11e8-9072-f6d4bc32f223_story.html\">withdraws as from his nomination to head the Veterans Administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ronny L. Jackson, President Trump\u2019s embattled nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, withdrew from consideration Thursday amid mushrooming allegations of professional misconduct that raised questions about the White House vetting process.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe allegations against me are completely false and fabricated,\u201d Jackson, the White House physician, said in a defiant statement. \u201cIf they had any merit, I would not have been selected, promoted and entrusted to serve in such a sensitive and important role as physician to three presidents over the past 12 years.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Jackson\u2019s nomination had become imperiled even before Capitol Hill Democrats on Wednesday released new allegations of misconduct. The claims include that he had wrecked a government vehicle after getting drunk at a Secret Service going-away party.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations were contained in a two-page document described by the Democratic staff of the Senate Veterans\u2019 Affairs Committee as a summary of interviews with 23 of Jackson\u2019s current and former colleagues. The document also described Jackson\u2019s \u201cpattern\u201d of handing out medication with no patient history, writing himself prescriptions and contributing to a hostile work environment where there was \u201ca constant fear of reprisal.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a feeling that Dr. Feelgood&#8217;s promotion to 2 star admiral might be delayed as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronny Jackson withdraws as from his nomination to head the Veterans Administration: Ronny L. Jackson, President Trump\u2019s embattled nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, withdrew from consideration Thursday amid mushrooming allegations of professional misconduct that raised questions about the White House vetting process. \u201cThe allegations against me are completely false and fabricated,\u201d Jackson, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,450,588,432,454],"class_list":["post-179173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-employment","tag-fail","tag-medieval","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}