{"id":179179,"date":"2018-04-24T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/24\/great-googly-moogly-4\/"},"modified":"2018-04-24T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T02:34:00","slug":"great-googly-moogly-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/24\/great-googly-moogly-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Googly Moogly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House Doctor, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/24\/us\/politics\/ronny-jackson-veterans-affairs.html\">has been accused of being an abusive manager, over-prescribing drugs, and being drunk at work<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Trump acknowledged Tuesday that Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, his nominee to lead the Veterans Affairs Department, is in serious trouble amid accusations that as the White House doctor he oversaw a hostile work environment, improperly dispensed prescription drugs and possibly drank on the job.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Members of Mr. Tester\u2019s staff said that they had been given several credible accounts of Dr. Jackson being intoxicated during official White House travel. In several cases, they said, he had apparently grabbed his medical bag and was \u201cattempting to assert himself,\u201d to show he was in charge.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">On one trip during Barack Obama\u2019s presidency, White House staff needed to reach Dr. Jackson for medical reasons and found him passed out in his hotel room after a night of drinking, Tester aides said. The staff members took the medical supplies they were looking for without waking Dr. Jackson.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The frightening thing is that this would make him one of Donald Trump&#8217;s more qualified nominees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Doctor, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, has been accused of being an abusive manager, over-prescribing drugs, and being drunk at work: President Trump acknowledged Tuesday that Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, his nominee to lead the Veterans Affairs Department, is in serious trouble amid accusations that as the White House doctor he oversaw a hostile &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":[379,374,406,563,454],"class_list":["post-179179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-military","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-veterans","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179179"}],"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=179179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}