33 Facts About Ronny Jackson

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Ronny Lynn Jackson was born on May 4,1967 and is an American physician, politician, and retired United States Navy rear admiral who is the US representative for.

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On March 28,2018, Trump nominated Jackson to be United States secretary of veterans affairs to succeed David Shulkin.

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Ronny Jackson retired from the Navy on December 1,2019, and on December 9, he filed to run for Congress in Texas's 13th congressional district.

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Ronny Jackson was born to Waymon and Norma Ronny Jackson and raised in Levelland, Texas.

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Ronny Jackson has a brother and a sister who live and work in Levelland.

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Ronny Jackson attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch, receiving his MD degree in 1995.

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Ronny Jackson graduated from the Undersea Medical Officer Program in 1996.

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Ronny Jackson had a series of operational postings, as officer-in-charge and diving medical officer at Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 8 at the naval base in Sigonella, Sicily and diving safety officer at the Naval Safety Center in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Ronny Jackson was clinical faculty physician in the Emergency Medical Residency Program in Portsmouth, Virginia for an additional year before being deployed to Iraq in 2005, where he worked as emergency medicine physician with a surgical shock trauma platoon in Taqaddum.

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In June 2006, Ronny Jackson became a physician in the White House Medical Unit, ultimately working under three presidents.

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Ronny Jackson became WHMU director in May 2010, and in July 2013 was given the additional title of Physician to the President.

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In January 2017, Ronny Jackson made headlines after treating a girl who was bitten by Sunny, one of the Obamas' dogs.

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Ronny Jackson continued to be Physician to the President during the Donald Trump administration.

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Ronny Jackson held the Navy rank of captain from May 1,2010, to October 1,2016, until he was promoted to rear admiral.

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Ronny Jackson was nominated for promotion to the two-star rank of rear admiral on March 20,2018, but the Senate Committee on Armed Services returned the nomination to the president on January 3,2019, without action.

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Ronny Jackson was renominated by Trump for promotion again on January 15,2019, but it was again returned to the president without action.

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Ronny Jackson retired from the Navy on December 1,2019, as a rear admiral.

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On March 28,2018, Trump announced that he planned to nominate Ronny Jackson to succeed David Shulkin as Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

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CNN reported that during an overseas trip in 2015, an intoxicated Ronny Jackson loudly knocked on a female employee's hotel room door so noisily that the Secret Service reportedly stopped him to prevent him potentially waking up Obama.

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Ronny Jackson withdrew himself from consideration for Secretary of Veterans Affairs on April 26,2018, after the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs began formally investigating the allegations.

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Ronny Jackson insisted that the allegations were "completely false and fabricated" and said he was withdrawing because the controversy had become a distraction for Trump and his agenda.

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Ronny Jackson returned to work in the White House Medical Unit but did not return to his position as Trump's personal physician; he was replaced in that position by Navy officer Sean Conley, who took over that role a month earlier in acting capacity.

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On December 9,2019, Ronny Jackson filed to run for Congress in Texas's 13th congressional district.

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Ronny Jackson opposes mask mandates to halt the spread of COVID-19.

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That same day, during the certification of the 2020 election, Ronny Jackson objected to certifying Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes.

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On May 19,2021, Ronny Jackson voted against legislation to establish the formation of a January 6 commission meant to investigate the storming of the US Capitol.

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On May 2,2022, the January 6 committee released a letter to Ronny Jackson requesting he meet with the committee; in response, Ronny Jackson released a statement calling the committee "illegitimate".

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In June 2021, Ronny Jackson was one of 14 House Republicans to vote against legislation to establish June 19, or Juneteenth, as a federal holiday.

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In November 2021, Ronny Jackson created a conspiracy theory that Democrats made up the Omicron variant of COVID-19 as "a reason to push unsolicited nationwide mail-in ballots" and to "cheat" in the upcoming midterm elections.

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In May 2022, the Office of Congressional Ethics reported that there was "substantial reason" to believe that Ronny Jackson had used campaign funds for personal use, to pay for unlimited access for himself and his wife to the Amarillo Club, a private dining club in Amarillo, Texas.

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Ronny Jackson refused to cooperate with the Congressional investigation, and his campaign's treasurer and accounting firm refused to provide documents to investigators.

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In December 2022, Ronny Jackson falsely claimed that Representative Katie Porter had asserted that "pedophilia is not a crime" but "an identity", referring to a deceptively edited video of a congressional hearing.

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Ronny Jackson has endorsed Trump's campaign in the 2024 presidential election.