The committee’s chairman, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), and prime Republican, Rep. Jackie Walorski (Ind.), mentioned in a press release that the panel has prolonged its assessment of Jackson after receiving a referral from the Workplace of Congressional Ethics (OCE), an impartial watchdog, in late December.
The assertion from the Home Ethics Committee didn’t element the allegations in opposition to Jackson.
However a spokesperson for Jackson mentioned that the assessment issues his marketing campaign finance actions and that the previous White Home physician-turned-lawmaker has cooperated with the investigation.
You’ll recall Jackson’s North Korean-like spin from his days as Trump’s private doctor, when he issued a weird, fawning report on his well being—saying, among other things, “He has extremely good genes, and it’s simply the way in which God made him. … I informed the President that if he had a more healthy weight loss plan during the last 20 years he would possibly reside to be 200 years previous.”
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Okay, the one approach Trump lives to be 200 is that if he’s actually sucking the life vitality out of me, as an alternative of—as I’ve assumed all alongside—merely sapping my will to reside. The man is extra milkshake than man, for fuck’s sake. My intestinal fluke, Skippy, has a extra refined palate. I’m really a little bit stunned Trump by no means gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mayor McCheese.
However there Jackson was, spewing a hagiographic profile of Trump that seemingly bore little relation to actuality. And “good genes”? I did Nazi that coming.
After all, this isn’t the primary time Jackson has been accused of sketchy conduct. A March 2021 Division of Protection inspector normal report raised purple flags in regards to the rear admiral’s (RDML) conduct whereas he served as White Home doctor.
Allegations about his explosive mood and making a hostile work surroundings are constant all through his time in each the Obama and Trump administrations as an “overwhelming majority of witnesses (56) … who labored with RDML Jackson from 2012 by way of 2018 informed us they personally skilled, noticed, or heard about him yelling, screaming, cursing, or belittling subordinates,” the report says.
“Many of those witnesses described RDML Jackson’s conduct with phrases and phrases comparable to ‘meltdowns,’ ‘yells’ for no cause,’ ‘rages,’ ‘tantrums,’ ‘lashes out,’ and ‘aggressive.’ These witnesses additionally described RDML Jackson’s management type with phrases comparable to ‘tyrant,’ ‘dictator,’ ‘management freak,’ ‘hallmarks of worry and intimidation,’ ‘crappy supervisor,’ and ‘not a pacesetter in any respect,'” it provides.
On a presidential journey to Manila from April 22, 2014, to April 29, 2014, 4 witnesses who traveled with then-President Barack Obama and Jackson mentioned that Jackson grew to become intoxicated and made inappropriate feedback a few feminine medical subordinate.
Gee, is it any surprise why Jackson loves Trump a lot?
In the meantime, Pete Souza, a really public Jackson detractor (and former Jackson colleague) who’s devoted his Twitter feed almost exclusively to mocking the disgraced doc—together with the frequent posting of upside-down screenshots of the Texas rep’s more irreverent tweets—had just a few ideas of his personal on this newest growth.
We’ll see the place this goes, however this investigation couldn’t occur to a nicer man. As The Independent notes, “Mr. Jackson often alleges with out proof that [President Biden] is ‘senile’ and has accused Democrats of weaponising new variants of the coronavirus to help on this 12 months’s midterm elections.”
In different phrases, Jackson’s gone full MAGA—he’s dishonest and corrupt to the core. Godspeed, investigators. Godspeed.
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