Before heading out to the links Saturday morning, popular vote loser Donald Trump completed his pre-golf ritual of being an asshole to someone on the twitter. He's still attacking Sen. Jon Tester, the Montana Democrat who helped save the nation's veterans from Admiral Ronny Jackson, aka "Candyman," the guy Trump himself said probably wasn't up to the job of heading up Veterans Affairs.
In reality, the allegations were made by more than 20 sources in the military who contacted his committee’s staff to warn them about Jackson.
That’s some wishful thinking. National veterans’ groups are jumping to Tester’s support as are the veterans back home.
“We want to make it clear that Montana veterans stand with Jon Tester, just like he’s fought for us, and that politics has no place when it comes to picking one of the most important jobs in the country,” said Andrew Person, a veteran of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Congress has a critical role here in making sure whoever is nominated to lead the VA is ready to go, and Tester was doing the right thing.” [...]
“We’re not here to defend those allegations, but any person on the street will tell you the admiral didn’t have the experience to run such a large organization,” said Navy veteran Alex Taft. “From the start, he didn’t get the kind of vetting presidents normally give people with such a large responsibility.”
This is a fight Trump can’t win.