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U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Amarillo, threatened to beat up a state trooper and take down the Carson County sheriff in the next election after deputies detained the congressman at a rodeo outside of Amarillo in July, according to a sheriff’s incident report released Friday night.
The report said that Jackson screamed profanities at deputies who were trying to clear the area for emergency medical workers to attend to a teenager who was having a seizure. Deputies asked the former White House physician to step back four times before they put Jackson in handcuffs, according to their reports.
After the congressman was released, he demanded Carson County Sheriff Tam Terry call him and investigate the incident. During that call, Terry, a Republican, said that Jackson warned him that he would “bury me in the next election.”
The events described in the report starkly contrasted with the congressman’s public statement just days after the July 29 incident. A spokesperson for Jackson said at the time that he was detained amid a “very loud and chaotic environment” and was released as soon as law enforcement realized he was trying to help. Notably the statement said Jackson was sitting “in the stands during the entire rodeo, in full view of the assembled crowd, and was not drinking.”
But according to an account from Chief Deputy JC Blackburn, the GOP congressman was seen drinking backstage of the rodeo event. A Jackson aide disputed that in a statement Friday.
“Congressman Jackson was not drinking and was prevented from giving medical care in a potentially life-threatening situation due to overly aggressive and incompetent actions by the local authorities present at the time of the incident,” said Kate Lair, a spokesperson for Jackson. “Again, he was asked to help the teenager when no other uniformed medics were present. Congressman Jackson, as a trained ER physician, will not apologize for sparing no effort to help in a medical emergency, especially when the circumstances were chaotic and the local authorities refused to help the situation.”
The sheriff’s report, released to The Texas Tribune in response to a public information request, includes several accounts from deputies detailing what happened at the White Deer rodeo. After a teenager collapsed at the event, onlookers began to gather around her and EMS asked Department of Public Safety Trooper Young to clear the crowd, which included Jackson who said he was helping assist the patient. The report did not include the first name of many law enforcement officials present at the scene.
Young ordered Jackson to step back and moved him back. According to Deputy Alexander, Jackson pointed to Young and said, “I’m going to beat that mother *****’ ass!”
The congressman later told Terry that in his attempt to care for the patient, he thought it was safe to put a gumball in the patient’s mouth as a way to elevate her blood sugar. But in an exchange included in the report between Terry and White Deer EMS provider Kimberly Thomas, Thomas says that the gum presents a choking hazard to patients having a seizure, and that most gum is sugar free and thus would not address low blood sugar.
Due to Jackson’s extremely agitated state, in which he continued to yell profanities, deputies brought him to the ground and placed the congressman in handcuffs, according to the report. Officers then escorted Jackson out of the rodeo grounds and removed the handcuffs, while he continued to scream profanities at Trooper Young. After the congressman was released, his wife, Jane Jackson, approached the deputies and demanded their information before their group got into a Black SUV and left the scene.
Later that evening the Sheriff Terry received a text from dispatch that read, “Congressman Ronny Jackson wants a phone call tonight referencing something that happened at the rodeo.”
When Terry called Jackson at the provided number, the congressman said he was “***** pissed” about the incident, and said the deputies had used bad judgment. He demanded an investigation and consequences for the deputies involved. After threatening to “bury” the sheriff in the next election, Jackson ended the call with the phrase, “Game on,” Terry wrote in the report.
Law enforcement officials have not yet released footage of the incident, but Terry’s report said that he has reviewed tapes and agreed that the deputies actions were justified.
Jackson was first elected in 2020 to represent the 13th Congressional District, a deeply conservative district in the Panhandle. He is one of Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress and a vocal booster of his 2024 comeback campaign. He served as White House physician for both Barack Obama and Donald Trump before becoming a congressman. In 2018, he was nominated by Trump to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. But Jackson withdrew from consideration amid allegations of professional misconduct, including drinking on the job and overprescribing medication.
A 2021 investigative report by the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Defense found that Jackson disparaged employees, engaged in “alcohol-related misconduct” and made sexual comments about a female employee under his supervision.
The report also found that Jackson took sleeping pills during official travel and cited witness testimony that he was drunk while on duty during a presidential trip to Argentina. But the inspector general was unable to corroborate those claims and noted that there was no policy against the use of Ambien during long overseas flights.
At the time, Jackson denied the allegations in the report and called it a “political hit job” that “purposely left out key facts.”
Just because he didn't know how to help doesn't mean he wasn't GOING to help!
Quote:Jackson said the president enjoyed good health despite a subpar diet and no exercise routine.
"It's called genetics," Jackson said. "Some people just have great genes. I told the president if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years he might live to be 200."
Jackson also noted that Trump has abstained from alcohol and tobacco for his entire life, which contributed to his relatively good health.
(08-12-2023, 12:56 PM)GMDino Wrote: Only the best people.
When Terry called Jackson at the provided number, the congressman said he was “***** pissed” about the incident, and said the deputies had used bad judgment. He demanded an investigation and consequences for the deputies involved. After threatening to “bury” the sheriff in the next election, Jackson ended the call with the phrase, “Game on,” Terry wrote in the report.
Law enforcement officials have not yet released footage of the incident, but Terry’s report said that he has reviewed tapes and agreed that the deputies actions were justified.
"He said he said," until we see the video and hear of whatever guidance police had in such matters.
I hope the Sheriff will back his men if they are in the right. Terrible for morale if people are punished for doing the right
thing and the boss goes along with it.
(08-14-2023, 06:06 PM)Dill Wrote: "He said he said," until we see the video and hear of whatever guidance police had in such matters.
I hope the Sheriff will back his men if they are in the right. Terrible for morale if people are punished for doing the right
thing and the boss goes along with it.
Virtually nobody has authority over a sheriff. They don’t have to bow down to anyone.
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”-Thurgood Marshall
My comments keep getting removed for some reason. Someone reporting me. So immature. Lets hear from the other side in this matter. Stop bashing conservatives.
(08-15-2023, 01:52 AM)guyofthetiger Wrote: My comments keep getting removed for some reason. Someone reporting me. So immature. Lets hear from the other side in this matter. Stop bashing conservatives.
When you find a liberal politician who has behaved like Congressman Jackson, feel free to bash him.
This isn’t a liberal or conservative thing…it’s a behavior issue
(08-15-2023, 07:41 AM)pally Wrote: When you find a liberal politician who has behaved like Congressman Jackson, feel free to bash him.
This isn’t a liberal or conservative thing…it’s a behavior issue
You know that isn't true. You knew the party affiliation of the person in question simply by knowing who started the thread. So of course it's a liberal vs. conservative thing. Don't play dumb.
(08-15-2023, 12:17 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Aside from the voters, I'm sure you meant.
Yes that one
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”-Thurgood Marshall
(08-15-2023, 11:14 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You know that isn't true. You knew the party affiliation of the person in question simply by knowing who started the thread. So of course it's a liberal vs. conservative thing. Don't play dumb.
Are we not allowed to evaluate an individuals actions without considering their party affiliation?
(08-15-2023, 04:42 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Are we not allowed to evaluate an individuals actions without considering their party affiliation?
Of course you are, that's not the point I am making. I fail to see how you could even come to the conclusion that it was. The point, very simply, is that GM would never have made this thread if the offender was a Dem. You know it, I know it, we all know it. Hence the claim that this thread isn't about "liberal or conservative" is patently absurd.
(08-15-2023, 04:55 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Of course you are, that's not the point I am making. I fail to see how you could even come to the conclusion that it was. The point, very simply, is that GM would never have made this thread if the offender was a Dem. You know it, I know it, we all know it. Hence the claim that this thread isn't about "liberal or conservative" is patently absurd.
And had he been a Democrat, Luvnit would've been all over it.
The tribalism is of course ridiculous. Hand waving off the actions of any politician who acts like this is even more ridiculous, but happens in every topic here. If we're not going to hold our politicians accountable for their actions, we sure as shit not going to hold each other accountable.
Our father, who art in Hell
Unhallowed, be thy name
Cursed be thy sons and daughters
Of our nemesis who are to blame
Thy kingdom come, Nema
(08-16-2023, 09:38 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: And had he been a Democrat, Luvnit would've been all over it.
I completely agree.
Quote:The tribalism is of course ridiculous. Hand waving off the actions of any politician who acts like this is even more ridiculous, but happens in every topic here. If we're not going to hold our politicians accountable for their actions, we sure as shit not going to hold each other accountable.
I agree once again. An alternative is that we could actually start doing exactly that. Let's not claim Luvnit is some crazy extremist while ignoring the equally extreme posters on the left, and vice versa. I honestly try to be fair about this, I can't claim to always succeed. But what I can definitively say is that very few people, by your own admission, even try. Maybe if more of us did so we'd have a forum for more free discussion?
(08-16-2023, 09:38 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: And had he been a Democrat, Luvnit would've been all over it.
The tribalism is of course ridiculous. Hand waving off the actions of any politician who acts like this is even more ridiculous, but happens in every topic here. If we're not going to hold our politicians accountable for their actions, we sure as shit not going to hold each other accountable.
Which is why most of the posts on this thread were about me instead of the story.
Jackson has all kinds of issues going back to BEFORE he was elected to office. This is just another example of his shortcomings.
Naturally he is playing the victim. And naturally nothing he does will sway anyone because they think its "the left" just going after him versus simply sharing the facts as they are presented.
Your anger and ego will always reveal your true self.
(09-07-2023, 10:31 AM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Who the hell would want to be POTUS then when your own party wants to Impeach you before you even get a chance to set foot in the WH?
1) I replied to the wrong thread...lol.
Two, its the gop wanting to impeach a judge who is a Democrat in Wisconsin.
Your anger and ego will always reveal your true self.
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