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Team Trump Publicly Pissed at Jon Tester, Privately at Johnny Isakson Over Jackson's Nomination...
Team Trump Publicly Pissed at Jon Tester, Privately at Johnny Isakson Over Ronny Jackson’s Nomination DisasterThe VA committee’s top Democrat and Republican worked closely together to force the president’s pick to withdraw, the White House believes.
LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
SAM STEIN
05.01.18 5:02 AM ET
For days now, President Donald Trump has been angrily tweeting at Sen. Jon Tester (MT), the top Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, for spreading wild allegations that fueled the implosion of the Veterans Affairs nomination of Ronny Jackson. But privately, relations are nearly as strained between the White House and the committee’s top Republican over what West Wing officials have described as the “smearing” of the White House physician.
According to four sources familiar with the situation, both inside and outside of the West Wing, the Trump White House has grown increasingly angry with Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), the chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, for his apparent disinclination to warn administration officials in advance of Tester’s media blitz.
Numerous congressional and Veterans Affairs sources told The Daily Beast that Tester was closely in touch with his Republican colleague throughout the last two weeks, when committee members first heard allegations against Jackson and began to investigate them. There was even an implicit understanding that Tester would be the one to address those allegations with the press as Isakson and other Republicans, while wary of getting into an intra-party feud, were nonetheless eager to send a critical message to the White House about its porous vetting operation.
“They were trying to train Trump but they didn’t have the balls to stand up to him,” said one top-ranking Democrat familiar with the plan.
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