confirmation hearing. but they re not making it easy for the senators that are in charge of this nomination going along. trying to give his nomination a boost last night, the white house gave reporters a stack of reports about ronny jackson s time working in the white house. in that stack of records was a whole punbunch of good stuff, b also an inspector general report about the white house medical unit when he was one of its two leaders. it was rawritten during the tim he was in a leadership position there in 2012 and the report details a power struggle between ronny jackson and another doctor in the office. it also includes a whole bunch of quotes from ronny jackson s subordinates and colleagues at the time, that are terrible! and that sound a lot a like, well, what we read in today s report, as well. from the ig report in 2012, quote, worst command ever. senior officers are not leading. quote, passive-aggressive behavior is exhibited by leadership. quote, command climate is terrible
car. we checked with d.c. police. they say they do have two accident reports on file involving ronny jackson. one in 2013 and one in 2016, but we don t have any other information at all about those accidents or what caused them or how he was involved. we are still trying to find out more about that. we will keep you posted on that if we learn it. the white house for itsz part spent the day defending ronny jackson, reportedly pushing the senate to reschedule his confirmation hearing. but they are not making it easy for the senators who are in charge of this nomination going along if it s gonna. trying to give his nomination a boost last night, the white house gave reporters a stack of reports about ronny jackson s time working in the white house. in that stack of records was a whole bunch of good stuff, but also an inspector general report about the white house medical unit when he was one of its two leaders. it was written during the time he was in a leadership position there in 2012 a
ronny jackson s nomination, right? but the other weird thing about the white house handing out those records to reporters on purpose last night is that when they released them last night, they hadn t actually given them to congress. who was supposed to be vetting ronny jackson for this job. they d never given them to the people in charge of vetting and confirming him for the va job. they just gave them to the press instead. leo shayne reports that the senate had not seen those documents until the white house handed them out and the press started reporting on them last night. well, finally, now the senate does have those documents as well as this bulleted list of accusations against ronny jackson from the missing percocets to the wrecked government vehicle to the staffer who called working for ronny jackson the worst experience of an entire working life. the list takes up the better part of two pages, single spaced. publicly, ronny jackson said he isn t withdrawing his nomination, but
it also includes a whole bunch of quotes from ronny jackson s subordinates and colleagues at the time that are terrible and that sound a lot like, well, what we read in today s report as well. from the i.g. report in 2012, quote, worst command ever. senior officers are not leading. quote, passive aggressive behavior is exhibited by leadership. quote, command climate is terrible. quote, the leaders are childlike. that was a weird thing for the white house to hand to reporters if they were trying to salvage ronny jackson s nomination, right? but the the other weird thing about the white house handing out those records to reporters on purpose last night is that when they released them last night, they hadn t actually given them to congress who is supposed to be vetting ronny jackson for this job. they had never given them to the people in charge of confirming and vetting him for the v.a. job. they gave them to the press instead. leo shane from military times reports, the senate had not