Ronny Jackson M.D. was stripped of his Admiral stripes and nobody knew about it
Why didn’t anyone know about it?
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 Texas representative writes on his congressional website, 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 thatsubstantiated 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 significant financial burden in addition to the social stigma of stripped rank in military circles.
He still refers to himself as an admiral and didn’t reveal in his Trump bootlicking memoir that he was demoted.
A Navy official confirmed that the service took unspecified action against Jackson in the wake of the 2021 inspector general’s report, which found that Jackson berated subordinates in the White House medical unit, “made sexual and denigrating statements” about a female subordinate, consumed alcohol inappropriately with subordinates and consumed the sleep drug Ambien while on duty as the president’s physician. At the time of the report, Jackson was classified by the Navy as a rear admiral (lower half), a one-star admiral that is distinct from the two-star rear admiral position.
We also now know that he was passing out narcotics and other drugs like they were candy during the Trump administration. And that includes Fentanyl which nobody can figure a use for in the White House.
Apparently, Jackson was an inveterate ass kisser. Obama loved him too, apparently:
Former colleagues, political officials and Jackson himself have all described his strategy of providing complimentary, round-the-clock care to numerous White House officials and even their friends and family. The Pentagon’s most recent investigation found that many of the patients who received complimentary care from the White House medical team were not eligible for it.
But in the White House,Jackson’s approach won him favor within two presidential administrations. Obama, who personally chose Jackson as hisphysician in 2013, considered him a friend and promoted him to a one-star admiral in October 2016.
Jackson also endeared himself to Trump, particularly after a January 2018 news conference in which the White House physician extolled Trump’s health — joking to reporters that the then-71-year-old president could “live to be 200 years old” if he only ate healthier. Jackson added that Trump performed exceedingly well during a cognitive exam, a test that Jackson scheduled to rebut growing questions about the president’s fitness for office.
He retired right around the time of the investigation and ran for Congress where he currently serves as an incoherent Biden critic regularly accusing him of being mentally incompetent.
Trump just loved the guy and for the usual reason. He licked his boots so beautifully.
Speaking at the August 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference — days after the Navy privately demoted Jackson — Trump alsoextolled his former physician.
“He was an admiral, a doctor and now he’s a congressman, and I said, which is the best if you had your choice? And he sort of indicated doctor because he loved looking at my body, it was so strong,” Trump joked before pivoting to the reason for his affection for Jackson. “He said I’m the healthiest president that’s ever lived. … I said, I like this guy.
By the way, Jackson is heavily rumored, and from the evidence not without reason, to be a very heavy drinker.