BIG SANDY, Mont. — Under a nearly cloudless sky on the sun-speckled northern prairie last Tuesday, Jon Tester, this state’s senior senator, had his hands deep inside a 25-year-old grain auger. Mr. Tester had recently torpedoed the nomination of the president’s personal physician, Ronny L. Jackson, to be his secretary of veterans affairs, incurring Mr. Trump’s wrath — “very dishonest and sick!” the commander in chief thundered on Twitter. Another repair job a few days earlier had taken out a fresh chunk of flesh from his famously mangled left hand. (Mr. Tester lost three fingers to a meat grinder as a child.)

Source: New York Times June 03, 2018 09:00 UTC