Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson was demoted by Navy following watchdog probe into work as White House doc: report
By Social Links for Olivia Land and
Social Links for Josh Christenson
Published March 7, 2024, 12:24 p.m. ET
He’s been doctoring his rank.
Former White House physician and Republican Congressman Ronny Jackson still touts himself as a retired US Navy rear admiral — even though he was formally demoted nearly two years ago following a damning inspector general report.
The Navy bumped Jackson down to retired captain in July 2022 following a Pentagon inspector general’s probe that supported allegations that he behaved inappropriately during his time as physician to the president between 2013 and 2018, a current defense official and a former US official told the Washington Post.
When Jackson retired in December 2019, he was classified as a rear admiral (lower half), a one-star rank.
But Jackson — who was elected to represent Texas’ 13th District in 2020 — still flexes his outdated bona fides whenever possible, including on his congressional website, where he refers to himself as “a retired US Navy Rear Admiral with nearly three decades of military service.”
A Navy official confirmed to The Post that the service took unspecified action against Jackson after the 2021 inspector general report revealed that the dad of three “made sexual and denigrating statements” about females on staff and berated subordinates during his White House tenure.
“The substantiated allegations in the DoDIG investigation of Rear Adm (lower half) Ronny Jackson are not in keeping with the standards the Navy requires of its leaders and, as such, the Secretary of the Navy took administrative action in July 2022,” a Navy spokesperson said.
Jackson’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
The demotion also comes with a serious financial cost.
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