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President Donald Trump has appointed his former doctor to be his assistant and chief medical adviser. Trump calls for Senator Jon Tester to resign over Ronny Jackson claims Read more The navy doctor withdrew following allegations of professional misconduct, which the Pentagon continues to investigate. After Trump nominated Jackson for the position last April, Montana Democrat Jon Tester released a document summarizing more than 20 interviews conducted by staffers with people who served with Jackson. The document included allegations of drunkenness, faulty prescribing practices and creating a hostile work environment. It included claims that Jackson “got drunk and wrecked a government vehicle” after a party and described “at least one occasion [when] Dr Jackson could not be reached when needed because he was passed out drunk in his hotel room”. It also alleged that he so freely handed out prescription drugs he was nicknamed “candyman” and had his own “private stocks of controlled substances”. Upon withdrawing his nomination, Jackson denied the allegations made against him. “While I will forever be grateful for the trust and confidence President Trump has placed in me by giving me this opportunity, I am regretfully withdrawing my nomination to be secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs.” Jackson led the medical team for Trump’s physical exam last year and said the president was in excellent health and had “incredibly good genes”. A White House official not authorized to publicly discuss personnel issues said Trump considers Jackson a trustworthy medical adviser and physician. Trump reportedly previously told aides and outside advisers that he is fond of Jackson personally.

Gov. The 30-minute segment, titled “Perfect Storm,” aired on WVVA, an NBC affiliate based in Bluefield. It consisted of Bray Cary, an adviser to Justice and board member of publicly traded natural-gas driller EQT Corp., interviewing the governor about the potential goodness of Republicans if they swept Tuesday’s elections. The ad was paid for by West Virginians for Fair Courts, which is headed by Greg Thomas, a longtime GOP consultant in West Virginia and campaign manager to Blankenship for his Senate run in the Republican primary earlier this year. According to disclosures to the Federal Communications Commission, the group paid $5,000 to run the ad, which included campaign plugs for Republicans like Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and congressional candidate Carol Miller, and for nonpartisan judicial candidates like West Virginia Supreme Court Justices Tim Armstead and Evan Jenkins. Along with Cary interviewing Justice in a format reminiscent of a Charlie Rose interview, the segment features a video compilation of news clips generally focused on positive economic news in the state. When asked about the appearance of a state-made video that includes the governor and two state employees appearing in a political ad, he said the video compilation was not made for political purposes. “I see that point, but the video was made to document the then-current posture of the administration, in terms of what that political issue is,” he said. Abraham said he asked an attorney with the state Ethics Commission for an informal opinion, and that attorney agreed with him. Despite being technically nonpartisan candidates, Armstead and Jenkins both served as elected Republicans before Justice appointed them to the Supreme Court.

Fmr. DOJ Spokesman Matthew Miller, WaPo columnist Jennifer Rubin, and former DNC sr. adviser Doug Thornell on Beto O’Rourke’s historic campaign to unseat Ted Cruz and the implications for Democrats in the lone star state » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc…

Ted Cruz could lose his Senate seat in Texas because he isn’t “likable” enough but the Democrats’ “movement of hate” will not attract former Republican voters and a midterm “blue wave” is unlikely, Donald Trump’s budget chief told donors in remarks reported by the New York Times on Saturday. Read more The Times said it had obtained a recording of Mick Mulvaney and Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel speaking at a closed-door meeting in New York. “There’s a very real possibility we will win a race for Senate in Florida and lose a race in Texas for Senate, OK?” Mulvaney was reported as saying. “I don’t think it’s likely, but it’s a possibility. He has been endorsed by Trump – to the glee of pundits who have resurfaced brutally critical tweets from the primary – but he faces Beto O’Rourke, a Democratic congressman whose tireless and media-savvy campaigning has kept the race closer than most expected. Mulvaney, the Times said, also discussed Trump’s continued confusion over why Roy Moore, the Republican candidate in a special Senate election in Alabama last year, lost a deep-red seat to Democrat Doug Jones. “That’s easy. He was a terrible candidate.” Among other controversies Moore, a hardline former state supreme court justice, was forced to deny accusations of sexual misconduct involving teenagers. McDaniel and Mulvaney both reportedly said they did not believe Democrats would be able to channel opposition to Trump into a takeover of Congress. “They have their energy,” McDaniel was quoted as saying.