CNN: Ronny Jackson Banged on the Door of Female Employee While Drunk During 2015 Trip

During an overseas trip in 2015, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, was intoxicated and banged on the hotel room door of a female employee, according to four sources familiar with the allegation. https://t.co/obJYetBI6L https://t.co/0rKuFJlxEl

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) April 25, 2018

There’s a stunning new report from CNN tonight about a “drunken episode” from Dr. Ronny Jackson.

Earlier today Senator Jon Tester said that senators were told Jackson was “repeatedly” drunk while on duty.

Per CNN, one such incident took place in 2015:

During an overseas trip in 2015, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, was intoxicated and banged on the hotel room door of a female employee, according to four sources familiar with the allegation.

The incident became so noisy, one source familiar with the allegation told CNN, that the Secret Service stopped him out of concern that he would wake then-President Barack Obama.

Two sources who previously worked in the White House Medical Unit described the same incident, with one former staffer telling CNN that it was “definitely inappropriate, in the middle of the night,” and that it made the woman uncomfortable.

The incident apparently was one of “multiple drunken episodes involving Jackson.”

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