Speaker Johnson appoints Trump loyalists to Intelligence Committee

Speaker Johnson appoints Trump loyalists to Intelligence Committee, pulling panel rightward
Rep, Scott Perry, the former Freedom Caucus chair, and Rep. Ronny Jackson, who was Trump’s White House physician, have both criticized the intelligence community.

Perry is the right wing former head of the rabble-rousing House Freedom Caucus who was a central figure in efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss. Perry was “central to the planning of Jan. 6,” referring to Trump’s plan to stay in office – despite losing the 2020 Election.

And central to the planning of operating the Justice Department officials to execute a plan that Donald Trump wanted. And what Donald Trump wanted was to essentially shred the Constitution in any way that he could to stay in power.”

Perry asked Trump for a pardon following the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Jackson is a former White House physician who served in the Trump and Obama administrations but was ultimately demoted after reports of “inappropriate conduct” during that time. He remains an outspoken ally of Trump.

The Navy demoted Jackson to Captain in July 2022 following a damaging Pentagon inspector general’s report that substantiated allegations about his inappropriate behavior as a White House physician. Despite the demotion, Jackson has continued to refer to himself as a retired rear admiral, including in statements released since the Navy reclassified him as a retired captain.

A Navy official confirmed that the service took unspecified action against Jackson in the wake of the 2021 inspector general’s report, which found that Jackson berated subordinates in the White House medical unit, “made sexual and denigrating statements” about a female subordinate, consumed alcohol inappropriately with subordinates and consumed the sleep drug Ambien while on duty as the president’s physician. At the time of the report, Jackson was classified by the Navy as a rear admiral (lower half), a one-star admiral that is distinct from the two-star rear admiral position.

“The substantiated allegations in the DoDIG [Department of Defense inspector general] 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,” Lt. Cmdr. Joe Keiley, a Navy spokesman, said via email.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/biggest-lie-trump-biden-2024-voters.html

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https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/07/ronny-jackson-white-house-navy-demoted/