- Reiterating what he tweeted Saturday morning, President Donald Trump said the Secret Service told him the allegations against White House Dr. Ronny Jackson were untrue.
- Trump had nominated Jackson to be his new secretary of veterans’ affairs, but Jackson withdrew from consideration this week after a slew of misconduct allegations came to light.
- Sen. Jon Tester of Montana revealed some of the allegations against Jackson this week, saying nearly two dozen sources had come forward ahead of the rear admiral’s confirmation hearings.
- “Well I know things about Tester that I could say, too,” Trump said cryptically at a wild rally Saturday night. “And if I said them, he’d never be elected again.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — A furious President Donald Trump on Saturday called for the resignation of the Democratic senator who assembled and released what he called “false” allegations that scuttled the nomination of the White House doctor who’d been in line to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Trump stepped up his criticism of Montana’s Jon Tester, the top Democrat on the Senate Veterans’ Committee, in two tweets days after asserting that Tester “has to have a big price to pay” politically in the GOP friendly state for his leading role in Ronny Jackson’s failed VA bid. Tester faces a competitive re-election race this year.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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