I had heard the news about that so-called pseudo-pharmacy in the White House last Friday, but didn't pay attention until I saw Ambien trending on Twitter and #BlueAnon bagging on Ronny Jackson.
Most Tweets just had dueling mugshots of him and Hunter Jackson, with comments of the nature of "You can attack Hunter, but look at Ronnie Jackson."
Then, several tweets down, saw an Ars Technica link. OK, real news.
The real real news? The inspection by the Department of Defense Inspector General (WH physician is traditionally military officer, or else DoD civilian) was from 2009-2018.
Lemme see.
As I put it on Twitter, first, Dear Leader Obama was president most that time.
As I put it on Twitter secondly, Ronny Jackson was Dear Leader's doc during most that time. He became director of the White House Medical Unit in May 2010 and Physician to the President in July 2013.
I love it when #BlueAnon scores an own goal!
Now, it's true that most the investigation was on the Trump years.
It's also true that not having a pharmacist to run was was therefore by definition a pseudo-pharmacy also goes back to Obama's time, if not earlier. And STAT, which broke the story and is linked by Ars, noted that Obama-era staffers were interviewed as part of the investigation.
The full report notes other problems.
First, the WHMU has tripled in size in 15 years. (Counts back to ... 2009!)
Second, and this one I think DID fall mainly in the Trump-years focus, and that was providing health care, meds, etc., to ineligible WH staffers, families, etc.
That said, back to that own goal? The previous IG investigation of Jackson himself? Much of the behavior it looked at occurred on Dear Leader's watch.
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