The White House is vouching for President Donald Trump’s health—using a disgraced doctor who gave up his full medical license and was stripped of his military rank after a series of scandals.
It issued a statement in the name of Ronny Jackson—and not that of the actual White House physician. Jackson is now a MAGA loyalist member of the House of Representatives.
Jackson was Trump’s first White House physician, who claimed the president could “live to 200.” When Trump nominated Jackson to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs he was forced to withdraw over allegations he handed out prescription drugs “like candy,” earning him the moniker “Candyman.” He was later stripped of his rank as a rear admiral by the Navy.
Jackson, 58, also let his full medical license expire in Virginia, where h