Later on that June day, Navy Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson accompanied the Trumps to meet with Representative Steve Scalise's family and medical team. Now Trump is counting on Jackson to take charge at Veterans Affairs, a behemoth of a bureaucracy that has vexed a slew of decorated military officers and corporate managers. Trump is the third president Jackson has served after coming on as the presidential physician in 2006 during the George W. Bush administration. David Axelrod, a top Obama aide and strategist, tweeted after Jackson’s press conference on Trump: "I knew Dr. Ronny Jackson in the White House. He completed his residency in emergency medicine and was later assigned to Iraq with a Marine unit during Operation Iraqi Freedom as the emergency medicine physician in charge of resuscitative medicine.

Source: dna March 29, 2018 11:16 UTC